cURL in power shell windows 8.1: “A drive with the name 'localhost' does not exist”

Question

I was testing some nodejs server code and wanted to test the urls from windows power shell using the curl command. Some things to note here: 1. I have mingw and git bash ins

Answer 1

It looks like you already have curl as an alias to Ivoke-WebRequest:

Invoke-WebRequest : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'X'.

Try running remove-item alias:\curl and see if you now get the right curl being invoked. Alternatively, try by specifying the absolute path, i.e. c:\curl\curl.exe ....