Run cURL commands from Windows console

Solution 1:

Download cURL for Windows from here (and be sure to select it from Win32 - Generic way down on the page).

Then place it in a directory inside your PATH environment variable (ie: C:\Windows\System32) or run it with its full path preceding the executable name.

If you place it in a directory that's inside your PATH, make sure to close and then reopen command prompt to make the command available.

Solution 2:

If you install Git for Windows you get Curl automatically too. There are some advantages:

• Git takes care of the PATH setup during installation automatically.
• You get the GNU bash, a really powerful shell, in my opinion much better than the native Windows console.
• You get many other useful Linux tools like tail, cat, grep, gzip, pdftotext, less, sort, tar, vim and even Perl.

Solution 3:

After installing OpenSSL Light, restart Windows, open Command Prompt, then do a test command like:

curl http://www.google.com

If you get HTML tags back, it worked.