Re: cURL and POST

Thanks for that. I'll look into it. Sam "Lallous" <phplist@lgwm.org> wrote in message news:20020820102957.74065.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > >