cURL - URL manipulations in AEM

[nsvsrk]

Hello all,

"cURL is an open-source command-line tool used to perform URL manipulations.".

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-65/content/sites/administering/operati...

But URL manipulation involves altering URLs to perform various attacks or access unauthorized elements of a website.

https://search.brave.com/search?q=URL+manipulations&source=desktop&summary=1&conversation=3203c97b74...

How do these two go together?

Appreciate all your replies.

Thanks,

RK.

[aanchal-sikka]

@nsvsrk 

Can you possibly share an example?

[nsvsrk]

Hi,

I am just reading these two URLs.

One says "URL manipulation involves altering URLs to perform various attacks or access unauthorized elements of a website" and the other says "cURL is an open-source command-line tool used to perform URL manipulations.".

This means that cURL is mainly for attacking sites, which I am sure is not true.

Thanks,

RK.

[aanchal-sikka · Accepted solution]

@nsvsrk :

AEM is built on Sling Framework, thus there are many operations that can be performed via REST API (Services exposed via URLs)

In terms of AEM, cURL is utilizes these REST APIs to update/get information about various resources like pages, assets, packages etc.

The operations are listed here: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-65/content/sites/administering/operati...

One need to append credentials to perform these operations. The credentials are further restricted by the permissions one has on the system.

Its definitely not for attacking the systems, rather performing operations via URLs.