curl: (1) Protocol 'http not supported or disabled in libcurl

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To test a REST API I’m building, I decided to use curl.
From the website:

“curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.”

So after downloading the curl version for Windows, I opened a command prompt and browsed to the folder where I extracted the zip file.
I started with a simple command to invoke a PUT request to my API:
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/api/twittervnext/tweet'

Woops, first try and already an error:
curl: (1) Protocol 'http not supported or disabled in libcurl

The reason for this error is kind of stupid, Windows doesn’t like it when you are using single quotes for commands. So the correct command is:
curl –XPUT “http://localhost:9200/api/twittervnext/tweet”

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