The following command works in GNU Bash on FreeBSD but not in Git Bash on Windows:
curl -X PUT https://example.com/_config/cors/origins -d '"*"'
The intended result is to send a PUT request to https://example.com/_config/cors/origins with the body "*" (including the quotes - it's a JSON string).
However on Windows, the asterisk gets expanded as a glob even though it’s within quotes. Excerpt from --trace-ascii cURL log:
0000: PUT /_config/cors/origins HTTP/1.1 004f: User-Agent: curl/7.30.0 008e: Content-Length: 13 00a2: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded 00d3: => Send data, 13 bytes (0xd) 0000: .editorconfig == Info: upload completely sent off: 13 out of 13 bytes
(.editorconfig is the first file in the current directory.)
Escaping with a backslash ('"\*"') transmits the backslash:
0000: PUT /_config/cors/origins HTTP/1.1 004f: User-Agent: curl/7.30.0 008e: Content-Length: 4 00a1: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded 00d2: => Send data, 4 bytes (0x4) 0000: "\*" == Info: upload completely sent off: 4 out of 4 bytes
Two backslashes also transmits both backslashes in the request.
0000: PUT /_config/cors/origins HTTP/1.1 004f: User-Agent: curl/7.30.0 008e: Content-Length: 5 00a1: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded 00d2: => Send data, 5 bytes (0x5) 0000: "\\*" == Info: upload completely sent off: 5 out of 5 bytes
Is this a bug?
