Error using cURL to POST or PUT data formatted in JSON in Windows

If you use cURL in a cmd.exe shell on Windows, an attempt to POST or PUT data formatted in JSON results in an error. An example:

This is the data:

{"Continent":"AS","ContinentName":"Asia","CountryName":"India","Capital":"New Delhi","Iso_Alpha2":"IN","Iso_Numeric":"356","Iso_Alpha3":"IND","FipsCode":"IN"}

curl -i -X PUT -d "{"Continent":"AS","ContinentName":"Asia","CountryName":"India","Capital":"New Delhi","Iso_Alpha2":"IN","Iso_Numeric":"356","Iso_Alpha3":"IND","FipsCode":"IN"}"  -H "Content-type:application/json; charset=UTF-8" http://192.168.1.6:5984/geodb-country-test/IN

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: CouchDB/1.6.1 (Erlang OTP/R16B02)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 06:28:26 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 48
Cache-Control: must-revalidate

{"error":"bad_request","reason":"invalid_json"}

This is because the cmd.exe shell on Windows has issues parsing the quotes in the data.

One work around is to escape all quotes in the JSON. The following works:

curl -i -X PUT -d "{\"Continent\":\"AS\",\"ContinentName\":\"Asia\",\"CountryName\":\"India\",\"Capital\":\"New Delhi\",\"Iso_Alpha2\":\"IN\",\"Iso_Numeric\":\"356\",\"Iso_Alpha3\":\"IND\",\"FipsCode\":\"IN\"}"  -H "Content-type:application/json; charset=UTF-8" http://192.168.1.6:5984/geodb-country-test/IN

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Server: CouchDB/1.6.1 (Erlang OTP/R16B02)
Location: http://192.168.1.6:5984/geodb-country-test/IN
ETag: "1-d4c8b330d781b982184e0e6829f434cd"
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 06:31:26 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 65
Cache-Control: must-revalidate

{"ok":true,"id":"IN","rev":"1-d4c8b330d781b982184e0e6829f434cd"}

Escaping all the quotes in the data would be a huge pain; here's an online tool that will do all the donkey's work.

Another work around is to write the data to a file and use it in the following manner:

curl -i -X PUT -d @"C:/Shared Folder/country.json"  -H "Content-type:application/json; charset=UTF-8" http://192.168.1.6:5984/geodb-country-test/countries

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Server: CouchDB/1.6.1 (Erlang OTP/R16B02)
Location: http://192.168.1.6:5984/geodb-country-test/countries
ETag: "1-568f829b1bcc952ba27ca7a084428390"
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:42:12 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 72
Cache-Control: must-revalidate

{"ok":true,"id":"countries","rev":"1-568f829b1bcc952ba27ca7a084428390"}

cURL
Windows Installer