# CURL command not working
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curl-command-not-working/64519
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [November 1, 2016, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curl-command-not-working/64519 "2016-11-01T07:18:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@VijayKarthikeyan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/VijayKarthikeyan)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curl-command-not-working/64519/1 "2016-11-01T07:18:04Z")
While doing some handson with ELK, I happen to delete an Index from ELK. I used the below command
curl -XDELETE '[http://localhost:9200/logstash-2016.10.20](http://localhost:9200/logstash-2016.10.20)'
but this throws the below error
Invoke-WebRequest : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'XDELETE '.
At line:1 char:6
- curl -XDELETE '[http://localhost:9200/logstash-2016.10.20](http://localhost:9200/logstash-2016.10.20)'
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- CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (🙂 [Invoke-WebRequest], ParameterBindingException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : NamedParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand
So i checked whether the curl itself is working or not and found it to be working perfectly.
Please help me solve this issue
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curl-command-not-working/64519/2 "2016-11-01T08:23:17Z")
You're using some kind of PowerShell script that tries to emulate curl but doesn't support all options. This question has come up before and I believe there was a way to get PowerShell to send a DELETE request instead.
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### Author:  [@VijayKarthikeyan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/VijayKarthikeyan)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curl-command-not-working/64519/3 "2016-11-01T09:51:10Z")
Yes am using the Windows PowerShell for server20102.
Can you please provide that instruction on how I can process that query of CURL with DELETE request? I could not find the proper solution for that
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curl-command-not-working/64519/4 "2016-11-01T10:00:21Z")
I don't know anything about PowerShell but I can't imagine it's difficult to find out how to make DELETE requests with Invoke-WebRequest. Over and out.
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### Author:  [@krlplm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/krlplm)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curl-command-not-working/64519/5 "2016-11-01T12:31:11Z")
Try running as below,
`Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://localhost:9200/logstash-2016.10.20 -Method Delete`
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### Author:  [@VijayKarthikeyan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/VijayKarthikeyan)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curl-command-not-working/64519/6 "2016-11-01T12:46:12Z")
This seems to work perfectly. Thank you very much.
But is the Invoke-WebRequest is alternative for "curl"?
Sorry if this is a stupid question.
Also I need to know, whether the deleted index be removed from all the nodes for a request if it is stashed in multiple nodes. Are all the shards be removed for a 'delete'?
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curl-command-not-working/64519/7 "2016-11-01T12:55:01Z")
> But is the Invoke-WebRequest is alternative for "curl"?
curl is just an HTTP client. Invoke-WebRequest might not be capable of everything curl can do (and vice versa) but their feature sets should be similar.
> Also I need to know, whether the deleted index be removed from all the nodes for a request if it is stashed in multiple nodes.
Yes.
> Are all the shards be removed for a 'delete'?
Yes. There's no point in keeping a subset of the shards.
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### Author:  [@VijayKarthikeyan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/VijayKarthikeyan)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2016, 6:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curl-command-not-working/64519/8 "2016-11-02T06:40:43Z")
Thank you Magnus
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curl-command-not-working/64519/9 "2017-07-06T04:31:36Z")