# Translate a CURL command into a HTTP filter request
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translate-a-curl-command-into-a-http-filter-request/313403
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [September 1, 2022, 1:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translate-a-curl-command-into-a-http-filter-request/313403 "2022-09-01T01:51:42Z")
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### Author:  [@Ygal\_Mizrachi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ygal_Mizrachi)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2022, 1:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translate-a-curl-command-into-a-http-filter-request/313403/1 "2022-09-01T01:51:42Z")
Hello i need some help translating this CURL request into a http filter syntax
```auto
curl -k -u username:password -X POST 'https://192.168.88.1/rest/tool/flood-ping' \--data '{"address":"192.168.88.223","count":"12","interval":"20ms"}' \
-H "content-type: application/json"
```
This command WORKS as it returns this response:
```auto
[{".section":"0","avg-rtt":"1","max-rtt":"1","min-rtt":"1","received":"1","sent":"2"},{".section":"1","avg-rtt":"1","max-rtt":"1","min-rtt":"1","received":"12","sent":"12"}]%
```
Wich is the expected one.
As of now i have tried this configuration of the http filter plugin.
```auto
input {
stdin {
}
}
filter {
http {
url => "https://%{message}/rest/tool/flood-ping"
user => "username"
password => "password"
headers => {
"Content-Type" => "application/json"
}
verb => "POST"
ssl_verification_mode => "none"
query => {
"address" => "192.168.88.223"
"interval" => "20ms"
"count" => "120"
}
target_body => "respt"
}
}
output {
stdout {
}
}
```
But im getting this message:
```auto
[ERROR] 2022-08-31 21:26:17.884 [[main]>worker0] http - error during HTTP request {:url=>"https://192.168.88.1/rest/tool/flood-ping", :code=>400, :response=>"{\"detail\":\"missing values (5)\",\"error\":400,\"message\":\"Bad Request\"}"}
{
"@version" => "1",
"@timestamp" => 2022-09-01T01:26:15.342475Z,
"event" => {
"original" => "192.168.88.1"
},
"message" => "192.168.88.1",
"host" => {
"hostname" => "pragma"
},
"tags" => [
[0] "_httprequestfailure"
]
}
```
Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.
---
### Author:  [@jsvd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsvd)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translate-a-curl-command-into-a-http-filter-request/313403/2 "2022-09-01T13:30:53Z")
> [@Ygal\_Mizrachi](#):
>
> ```auto
> query => {
> "address" => "192.168.88.223"
> "interval" => "20ms"
> "count" => "120"
> }
>
> ```
You want to use "body" setting instead of "query". the "query" setting places the values in the query string (e.g. `http://ip:port?key1=value1&key2=value2`):
```auto
body => {
"address" => "192.168.88.223"
"interval" => "20ms"
"count" => "120"
}
body_format => json
```
This will create an HTTP request like so:
```auto
POST /rest/tool/flood-ping HTTP/1.1
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 60
Host: localhost:4444
User-Agent: Manticore 0.9.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=
{"address":"192.168.88.223","count":"120","interval":"20ms"}
```
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### Author:  [@Ygal\_Mizrachi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ygal_Mizrachi)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translate-a-curl-command-into-a-http-filter-request/313403/3 "2022-09-01T22:28:10Z")
Thank you so much for your help. This helped me a lot. I hope this also helps someone else
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translate-a-curl-command-into-a-http-filter-request/313403/4 "2022-09-29T22:28:11Z")
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