note 78328 added to ref.curl

There is a problem with uploading files via CURL. However the issues regarding the @ symbol as well as references to url_encoding are not the cause of the bug. The @ symbol is used to send the contents of a file, rather than the string representation of the file path, to the receiving script. (See Below) In other posts on this site references are made to CURLOPT_POSTFILEDS being populated with an array of post variables, however the documentation is clear, this variable is supposed to be a string,....therefore the following should work. function Post($vars,$url){ $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,1); #curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_UPLOAD,1); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$vars); curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); } $path = "/tmp/test.txt"; $url = "http://www.somesite.com/receive_changes.php"; $vars = "action=submitted&order=receive&file=@$path"; Post($vars,$url); Unfortunately this does not work. ---- Server IP: 209.41.74.194 Probable Submitter: 67.188.250.232 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/78328 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78328/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78328/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78328/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78328/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78328/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78328/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78328 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/78328 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php