Multi-part form cURL export incorrect

[lars06]

When sending a POST request for multi-part form in Insomnia, everything works as expected. However, when I copy as cURL command, or generate shell cURL code, I receive a command line error when running the command: curl: (26) Failed to open/read local data from file/application. After trying the same request and exporting cURL in Postman, the correct shell command is generated. It appears to be related to the XML field.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create multi-part form with fields as follows:

timestamp: 2021-07-14T01:02:34.567Z
field: test
data: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<test>TEST<test>

2. Copy to curl
3. Run command in shell

Expected behavior
Correct cURL is copied which is quoted/escaped in correct way

Desktop

• OS: macOS 11.3.1
• Insomnia: 2021.4.1

Additional context
Insomnia output:

curl --request POST \
  --url https://test.com/ \
  --header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---011000010111000001101001' \
  --form timestamp=2021-07-14T01:02:34.567Z \
  --form field=test \
  --form 'data=<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<test>TEST<test>'

Postman output:

curl --location --request POST 'https://test.com' \
--form 'timestamp="2021-07-14T01:02:34.567Z"' \
--form 'field="test"' \
--form 'data="<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>
<test>TEST<test>"'

[filfreire]

Hi @lars06, thank you for reporting this!

I was able to reproduce your issue.

This needs to be fixed on the underlying library (httpsnippet) we use for generating curl and other requests on insomnia. I went ahead and created an issue there so we can follow up as soon as possible.

• Generated multipart curl doesn't escape characters of form data fields httpsnippet#260