How to post JSON data using curl over basic http auth?

Question

I want to post data using curl unix command what I got by googling is doing like below:

curl --dump-header - -H "Content-Type: application/json"  -X POST --data '{"description": "This will prbbly be my lst post.", "transaction_id": "2011-05-22T00:46:38", "account": "another-post"}' http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/transaction/

But its is returning following response header like below:

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: POST; nodename nor servname provided, or not known
HTTP/1.0 401 UNAUTHORIZED
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:50:37 GMT
Server: WSGIServer/0.1 Python/2.7.1
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

What I am doing wrong

Answer 1

You don't need to write "POST" to make curl(1) post - it will do that automatically if you give it a --data argument.

Instead, it is mistaking "POST" for the URL you want to send to, and failing as you might imagine. Drop that word and you should be good.