Curl localhost connection refused

Question

I am trying to run this command in git bash:

curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/

or

curl localhost:8000/

but I receive this error:

curl: (7) Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 8000 after 2043 ms: Connection refused

tried to npx kill-port 8000 but it didn't solve the issue. when I use the following command, it works without issue on the same port of http://127.0.0.1:8000:

python -m uvicorn main:app

unfortunately, I need to have this with curl command.

Answer 1

The answer to this question is that I needed to create a server with uvicorn then curl a request. Curl request is just for having a request on an existing server. Uvicorn is the one that creates the server and curl does the requests.