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Using this [https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway][1] we are trying to push one metric to prometheus. It seems to require the data in a very specific format.



It works fine when doing their example curl of 



echo "some_metric 3.14" | curl --data-binary @- http://pushgateway.example.org:9091/metrics/job/some_job


Yet doing a curl with -d option fails as missing end of line/file



curl -d 'some_metric 3.15n' http://pushgateway.example.org:9091/metrics/job/some_job


I'm trying to understand the difference in behaviour since I believe both are doing POST commands and I need to replicate this --data-binary option in node.js via "request.post" method but I seem to only be able to replicate the curl -d option which doesn't work.



Any suggestions on hints on what the difference is between -d and --data-binary and to do the equivalent to --data-binary from within node.js?






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  • why are you combining questions here. Are you trying to understand the behaviour of curl command with its different flags? or are you trying to send a NodeJS POST request to push metrics to push Gateway?

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Using this [https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway][1] we are trying to push one metric to prometheus. It seems to require the data in a very specific format.



It works fine when doing their example curl of 



echo "some_metric 3.14" | curl --data-binary @- http://pushgateway.example.org:9091/metrics/job/some_job


Yet doing a curl with -d option fails as missing end of line/file



curl -d 'some_metric 3.15n' http://pushgateway.example.org:9091/metrics/job/some_job


I'm trying to understand the difference in behaviour since I believe both are doing POST commands and I need to replicate this --data-binary option in node.js via "request.post" method but I seem to only be able to replicate the curl -d option which doesn't work.



Any suggestions on hints on what the difference is between -d and --data-binary and to do the equivalent to --data-binary from within node.js?






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  • why are you combining questions here. Are you trying to understand the behaviour of curl command with its different flags? or are you trying to send a NodeJS POST request to push metrics to push Gateway?

    – Andres Leon Rangel
    yesterday














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Using this [https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway][1] we are trying to push one metric to prometheus. It seems to require the data in a very specific format.



It works fine when doing their example curl of 



echo "some_metric 3.14" | curl --data-binary @- http://pushgateway.example.org:9091/metrics/job/some_job


Yet doing a curl with -d option fails as missing end of line/file



curl -d 'some_metric 3.15n' http://pushgateway.example.org:9091/metrics/job/some_job


I'm trying to understand the difference in behaviour since I believe both are doing POST commands and I need to replicate this --data-binary option in node.js via "request.post" method but I seem to only be able to replicate the curl -d option which doesn't work.



Any suggestions on hints on what the difference is between -d and --data-binary and to do the equivalent to --data-binary from within node.js?






node.js curl prometheus







share|improve this question














Using this [https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway][1] we are trying to push one metric to prometheus. It seems to require the data in a very specific format.



It works fine when doing their example curl of 



echo "some_metric 3.14" | curl --data-binary @- http://pushgateway.example.org:9091/metrics/job/some_job


Yet doing a curl with -d option fails as missing end of line/file



curl -d 'some_metric 3.15n' http://pushgateway.example.org:9091/metrics/job/some_job


I'm trying to understand the difference in behaviour since I believe both are doing POST commands and I need to replicate this --data-binary option in node.js via "request.post" method but I seem to only be able to replicate the curl -d option which doesn't work.



Any suggestions on hints on what the difference is between -d and --data-binary and to do the equivalent to --data-binary from within node.js?






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  • why are you combining questions here. Are you trying to understand the behaviour of curl command with its different flags? or are you trying to send a NodeJS POST request to push metrics to push Gateway?

    – Andres Leon Rangel
    yesterday



















  • why are you combining questions here. Are you trying to understand the behaviour of curl command with its different flags? or are you trying to send a NodeJS POST request to push metrics to push Gateway?

    – Andres Leon Rangel
    yesterday

















why are you combining questions here. Are you trying to understand the behaviour of curl command with its different flags? or are you trying to send a NodeJS POST request to push metrics to push Gateway?

– Andres Leon Rangel
yesterday





why are you combining questions here. Are you trying to understand the behaviour of curl command with its different flags? or are you trying to send a NodeJS POST request to push metrics to push Gateway?

– Andres Leon Rangel
yesterday












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From curl man page:




--data-ascii



(HTTP) This is just an alias for -d, --data.



--data-binary



(HTTP) This posts data exactly as specified with no extra processing whatsoever.



If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a filename. Data is posted > in a similar manner as -d, --data does, except that newlines and carriage returns are > > preserved and conversions are never done.



Like -d, --data the default content-type sent to the server is application/x-www-form-> > urlencoded. If you want the data to be treated as arbitrary binary data by the server > then set the content-type to octet-stream: -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream".



If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will append data as > described in -d, --data.




Using @- will make curl read the filename from stdin.



So, basically in your first variant you send a binary file named "some_metric 3.14".
In the second one, you're sending an ascii string "some_metric 3.15n".



If you want curl to strip new lines before sending, use --data-ascii or -d option:



echo "some_metric 3.14" | curl -d @- http://pushgateway.example.org:9091/metrics/job/some_job






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  • Many thanks for your detailed response. Any idea how I can get node.js to POST data that matches the --data-binary curl command? It seems it should just be a case of adding a n to the data it is POSTing? The weird thing seems that the n approach didn't seem to work hence why I'm curious what else it does differently.

    – sradforth
    Nov 15 '18 at 12:24











  • @sradforth, I'm not quite familiar with NodeJS but you can take a look here: stackoverflow.com/questions/38030484/… Also, it'd be helpful if you send a file you're trying to send and a piece of code that does the file upload

    – StasKolodyuk
    Nov 15 '18 at 12:41











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From curl man page:




--data-ascii



(HTTP) This is just an alias for -d, --data.



--data-binary



(HTTP) This posts data exactly as specified with no extra processing whatsoever.



If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a filename. Data is posted > in a similar manner as -d, --data does, except that newlines and carriage returns are > > preserved and conversions are never done.



Like -d, --data the default content-type sent to the server is application/x-www-form-> > urlencoded. If you want the data to be treated as arbitrary binary data by the server > then set the content-type to octet-stream: -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream".



If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will append data as > described in -d, --data.




Using @- will make curl read the filename from stdin.



So, basically in your first variant you send a binary file named "some_metric 3.14".
In the second one, you're sending an ascii string "some_metric 3.15n".



If you want curl to strip new lines before sending, use --data-ascii or -d option:



echo "some_metric 3.14" | curl -d @- http://pushgateway.example.org:9091/metrics/job/some_job






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  • Many thanks for your detailed response. Any idea how I can get node.js to POST data that matches the --data-binary curl command? It seems it should just be a case of adding a n to the data it is POSTing? The weird thing seems that the n approach didn't seem to work hence why I'm curious what else it does differently.

    – sradforth
    Nov 15 '18 at 12:24











  • @sradforth, I'm not quite familiar with NodeJS but you can take a look here: stackoverflow.com/questions/38030484/… Also, it'd be helpful if you send a file you're trying to send and a piece of code that does the file upload

    – StasKolodyuk
    Nov 15 '18 at 12:41
















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From curl man page:




--data-ascii



(HTTP) This is just an alias for -d, --data.



--data-binary



(HTTP) This posts data exactly as specified with no extra processing whatsoever.



If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a filename. Data is posted > in a similar manner as -d, --data does, except that newlines and carriage returns are > > preserved and conversions are never done.



Like -d, --data the default content-type sent to the server is application/x-www-form-> > urlencoded. If you want the data to be treated as arbitrary binary data by the server > then set the content-type to octet-stream: -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream".



If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will append data as > described in -d, --data.




Using @- will make curl read the filename from stdin.



So, basically in your first variant you send a binary file named "some_metric 3.14".
In the second one, you're sending an ascii string "some_metric 3.15n".



If you want curl to strip new lines before sending, use --data-ascii or -d option:



echo "some_metric 3.14" | curl -d @- http://pushgateway.example.org:9091/metrics/job/some_job






share|improve this answer
























  • Many thanks for your detailed response. Any idea how I can get node.js to POST data that matches the --data-binary curl command? It seems it should just be a case of adding a n to the data it is POSTing? The weird thing seems that the n approach didn't seem to work hence why I'm curious what else it does differently.

    – sradforth
    Nov 15 '18 at 12:24











  • @sradforth, I'm not quite familiar with NodeJS but you can take a look here: stackoverflow.com/questions/38030484/… Also, it'd be helpful if you send a file you're trying to send and a piece of code that does the file upload

    – StasKolodyuk
    Nov 15 '18 at 12:41














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From curl man page:




--data-ascii



(HTTP) This is just an alias for -d, --data.



--data-binary



(HTTP) This posts data exactly as specified with no extra processing whatsoever.



If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a filename. Data is posted > in a similar manner as -d, --data does, except that newlines and carriage returns are > > preserved and conversions are never done.



Like -d, --data the default content-type sent to the server is application/x-www-form-> > urlencoded. If you want the data to be treated as arbitrary binary data by the server > then set the content-type to octet-stream: -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream".



If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will append data as > described in -d, --data.




Using @- will make curl read the filename from stdin.



So, basically in your first variant you send a binary file named "some_metric 3.14".
In the second one, you're sending an ascii string "some_metric 3.15n".



If you want curl to strip new lines before sending, use --data-ascii or -d option:



echo "some_metric 3.14" | curl -d @- http://pushgateway.example.org:9091/metrics/job/some_job






share|improve this answer













From curl man page:




--data-ascii



(HTTP) This is just an alias for -d, --data.



--data-binary



(HTTP) This posts data exactly as specified with no extra processing whatsoever.



If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a filename. Data is posted > in a similar manner as -d, --data does, except that newlines and carriage returns are > > preserved and conversions are never done.



Like -d, --data the default content-type sent to the server is application/x-www-form-> > urlencoded. If you want the data to be treated as arbitrary binary data by the server > then set the content-type to octet-stream: -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream".



If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will append data as > described in -d, --data.




Using @- will make curl read the filename from stdin.



So, basically in your first variant you send a binary file named "some_metric 3.14".
In the second one, you're sending an ascii string "some_metric 3.15n".



If you want curl to strip new lines before sending, use --data-ascii or -d option:



echo "some_metric 3.14" | curl -d @- http://pushgateway.example.org:9091/metrics/job/some_job







share|improve this answer












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  • Many thanks for your detailed response. Any idea how I can get node.js to POST data that matches the --data-binary curl command? It seems it should just be a case of adding a n to the data it is POSTing? The weird thing seems that the n approach didn't seem to work hence why I'm curious what else it does differently.

    – sradforth
    Nov 15 '18 at 12:24











  • @sradforth, I'm not quite familiar with NodeJS but you can take a look here: stackoverflow.com/questions/38030484/… Also, it'd be helpful if you send a file you're trying to send and a piece of code that does the file upload

    – StasKolodyuk
    Nov 15 '18 at 12:41



















  • Many thanks for your detailed response. Any idea how I can get node.js to POST data that matches the --data-binary curl command? It seems it should just be a case of adding a n to the data it is POSTing? The weird thing seems that the n approach didn't seem to work hence why I'm curious what else it does differently.

    – sradforth
    Nov 15 '18 at 12:24











  • @sradforth, I'm not quite familiar with NodeJS but you can take a look here: stackoverflow.com/questions/38030484/… Also, it'd be helpful if you send a file you're trying to send and a piece of code that does the file upload

    – StasKolodyuk
    Nov 15 '18 at 12:41

















Many thanks for your detailed response. Any idea how I can get node.js to POST data that matches the --data-binary curl command? It seems it should just be a case of adding a n to the data it is POSTing? The weird thing seems that the n approach didn't seem to work hence why I'm curious what else it does differently.

– sradforth
Nov 15 '18 at 12:24





Many thanks for your detailed response. Any idea how I can get node.js to POST data that matches the --data-binary curl command? It seems it should just be a case of adding a n to the data it is POSTing? The weird thing seems that the n approach didn't seem to work hence why I'm curious what else it does differently.

– sradforth
Nov 15 '18 at 12:24













@sradforth, I'm not quite familiar with NodeJS but you can take a look here: stackoverflow.com/questions/38030484/… Also, it'd be helpful if you send a file you're trying to send and a piece of code that does the file upload

– StasKolodyuk
Nov 15 '18 at 12:41





@sradforth, I'm not quite familiar with NodeJS but you can take a look here: stackoverflow.com/questions/38030484/… Also, it'd be helpful if you send a file you're trying to send and a piece of code that does the file upload

– StasKolodyuk
Nov 15 '18 at 12:41




















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