Support Windows commands created using "Copy as cURL (cmd)"

[Revadike]

In cmd curl, this is an escaped thing: --data "a=b^&c=d^&e=f^&h=i^&j=k^&l=m"
In this case: ^& should be &.
In other words, you'll have to unescape the string.

[NickCarneiro]

I don't see this escaping behavior on my machine. Can you provide a full curl command?
Command:
curl -v --data "a=b^&c=d^&e=f^&h=i^&j=k^&l=m" http://localhost:3005/page

Data received by server:

[Revadike]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to network tab in dev tools
2. Submit form
3. Copy request as cURL (cmd)
4. Observe how the body/data of the copied cURL is escaped (for cmd)
5. Use your website to convert cURL to node.js request
6. Data/body remains escaped for cmd

[jgroom33]

Is ^ an escape character?

[Revadike]

Yes https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-esc.html

[jgroom33]

Oh... ^ is escape character in Windows environment.

On mac and Linux, there is no option to export as cmd.

Why not use export as bash?

[Revadike]

I dunno. I haven't really used it, tbh. I'm just pointing out this case. Perhaps you want to handle it.

[jgroom33]

Perhaps.
I think generally Linux use cases are prioritized. If there is a work-around in Windows, that is preferred. If there is no work-around, then a fix is definitely warranted.

Is cmd output only used in powershell/cmd? I.e. does bash output not work in those environment?

[Revadike]

If you mean, if it has to be escaped for windows cmd usage, I believe yes.

[jgroom33]

This is not solvable without adding a handling for a new input language of curl cmd
This project only supports input language of curl bash
I recommend closing this as "won't fix"

[NickCarneiro]

@jgroom33 I would also consider cmd curl out of scope, BUT @cf512 already has an in-progress PR to support this kind of input. The only thing left is to separate out the code path into a new input language parser. I'm meeting with him today to see if he wants to proceed.

@Revadike Thanks for providing a clear example.

[verhovsky]

To support Windows cmd, someone needs to write a tree-sitter grammar for it (also see How to write a tree-sitter grammar in an afternoon). Anyone interested in doing that could take the bash tree-sitter grammar as a starting point. You can also look at the actual Chrome code that generates these cmd curl commands here

https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend/blob/04d4b64221e472bcbd5d1de16bef59c2cb9f8d02/front_end/panels/network/NetworkLogView.ts#L2033

Until/unless someone writes a grammar, the most we can do is improve the screenshot on the website so that Windows users have a chance to know that they need to click "Copy as cURL (bash)" instead of "Copy as cURL (cmd)". We could also detect if that's what happened (something like input.count('^') > 3 lol) and print a warning.