Binary Data Posting with curl
Solution 1:
You don't need --header "Content-Length: $LENGTH".
curl --request POST --data-binary "@template_entry.xml" $URL
Note that GET request does not support content body widely.
Also remember that POST request have 2 different coding schema. This is first form:
$ nc -l -p 6666 & $ curl --request POST --data-binary "@README" http://localhost:6666 POST / HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: curl/7.21.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8o zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.15 libssh2/1.2.6 Host: localhost:6666 Accept: */* Content-Length: 9309 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Expect: 100-continue .. -*- mode: rst; coding: cp1251; fill-column: 80 -*- .. rst2html.py README README.html .. contents::
You probably request this:
-F/--form name=content (HTTP) This lets curl emulate a filled-in form in which a user has pressed the submit button. This causes curl to POST data using the Content- Type multipart/form-data according to RFC2388. This enables uploading of binary files etc. To force the 'content' part to be a file, prefix the file name with an @ sign. To just get the content part from a file, prefix the file name with the symbol <. 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.