Curl on powershell

If you run curl on powershell, you may not get what you’re expecting. This is because it’s just an alias for Invoke-WebRequest. Instead, use curl.exe, which points to C:\Windows\System32 and works the same as curl on Linux environment.

curl https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/
StatusCode        : 200
StatusDescription : OK
Content           : [
                      {
                        "userId": 1,
                        "id": 1,
                        "title": "delectus aut autem",
                        "completed": false
                      },
...

curl.exe https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/
[
  {
    "userId": 1,
    "id": 1,
    "title": "delectus aut autem",
    "completed": false
  },
...