Thank you very much Dave. I will have to look at those. I am trying using Bash on Windows 10 which is now possible, as an alternative.
On 13 January 2017 at 10:44, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2017, at 15:05, John Le Brasseur wrote: > > Hi Stefan. > > I think it is something to do with the console. > > I am on Windows but use the cmder(http://cmder.net/) console program > > which > > doesn't normally require me to escape special characters. > > > > I tried the normal DOS command window, which I normally avoid, and guess > > what, it worked with the following command: > > > > curl -X PUT " > > http://jlb333333:[email protected]:5984/albums/ > 6e1295ed6c29495e54cc05947f18c8af/img.jpg?rev=34- > 4f33ba65127ea2f8cb67cd9e82fa2244" > > --data-binary @img.jpg -H "Content-Type: image/jpeg" > > > > I knew my syntax was correct. > > > > Correct file size and type. > > > > The console gymnastics in Windows is the biggest problem for me. > > > > Thank you Stefan and Robert for the inputs. > > > Hi John, > > https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc723564.aspx is the > reference for dealing with windows escape rules. > see also the dated but correct wrt windows shell quoting > https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Quirks_on_Windows > > A+ > Dave > John
