Run cURL commands from Windows console

Question

There is a way to install cURL in windows in order to run cURL commands from the command prompt?

Answer 1

Of course!

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 it's 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.

Answer 2

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.