Doc #52331 [Com]: Use of @ in CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is new

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52331&edit=1 ID: 52331 Comment by: dscotese at litmocracy dot com Reported by: dscotese at litmocracy dot com Summary: Use of @ in CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is new Status: Closed Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem Operating System: Linux/Windows I think PHP Version: 5.3.2 Assigned To: kalle Block user comment: N New Comment: Ron wrote: If you're setting POSTFIELDS as a string you need to encode like so: curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "file=@/home/ross/image.png"); For example, using http_build_query(). Wouldn't this simulate the submission of a form in which an <input> of type='file' has been submitted with the enter key, and the data returned to the server is an encoded file as the "value" in the name-value pair with the name "file"? That would be different from sending the file itself as the post data, not encoded, but rather relying only on the header to indicate its length. I don't know how such a a post data could be created by a <form> - I doubt it's possible. I do know that there are servers that expect that kind of post data though. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-23 17:05:28] kalle@php.net This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-23 17:05:23] kalle@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of kalle Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&amp;revision=304665 Log: Fixed bug #52331 (Use of @ in CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is new) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-20 05:44:46] dscotese at litmocracy dot com curl cURL support enabled cURL Information 7.19.6 Age 3 Features AsynchDNS No Debug No GSS-Negotiate No IDN Yes IPv6 No Largefile Yes NTLM Yes SPNEGO No SSL Yes SSPI No krb4 No libz Yes CharConv No Protocols tftp, ftp, telnet, dict, ldap, ldaps, http, file, https, ftps Host i686-pc-mingw32 SSL Version OpenSSL/0.9.8l ZLib Version 1.2.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-20 05:14:25] kalle@php.net Which version of cURL are you experincing this limitation? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-26 12:27:30] ross@php.net If you're setting POSTFIELDS as a string you need to encode like so: curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "file=@/home/ross/image.png"); For example, using http_build_query(). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52331 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52331&edit=1