Re: cURL and POST

Try to post it via other than CURL, http://Sloppycode.net and search for clsHtmlSource.php Good luck, Elias "Samantha Savvakis" <samantha@cfs.net.au> wrote in message news:20020820065124.54855.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > HI, > > I'm using the cURL binary to perform a HTTP POST to a web page. I am sending > XML data to this web page. > > The issue I've come up against if the size of the data that I'm trying to > post and it looks like cURL is crapping out. > > This is the command line that I'm currently using: > > /usr/local/bin/curl -m 600 -d "$strXML" > http://myurl.com/webpage.php -L -s > > $strXML - variable containing the XML data. I run this command using "exec". > > The return code I receive is: 127. This means a fatal error has occured with > cURL but that's all I know. > > I have read the detail about using the -F option. I do not want to POST the > "file" as such, but rather the "DATA" in the file is I create a file of the > XML. The manpage for cURL states: > > "-F : To just get the content part from a file, prefix the file name with > the letter <. The difference between @ and < is then that @ makes a file get > attached in the post as a file upload, while the < makes a text field and > just get the contents for that text field from a file." > > So I've tried going: > > /usr/local/bin/curl -m 600 -F </tmp/tempfile.xml > http://myurl.com/webpage.php -L -s > > /tmp/tempfile.xml - contains the XML data. This isn't working.I'm getting a > return code of "2" meaning: "Failed to initialize". > > I'm at a loss. I need to post this large amount of XML data to a remote site > and don't know how to get it there. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Sam > > > > >