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Online: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.shtml
Author: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: September 15, 2000
Version: 0.3
Date: August 20, 2001
Version: 0.4
The Art Of Scripting HTTP Requests Using Curl
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curl -d "birthyear=1905&press=OK&person=daniel" [URL]
4.5 FIGURE OUT WHAT A POST LOOKS LIKE
When you're about fill in a form and send to a server by using curl instead
of a browser, you're of course very interested in sending a POST exactly the
way your browser does.
An easy way to get to see this, is to save the HTML page with the form on
your local disk, mofidy the 'method' to a GET, and press the submit button
(you could also change the action URL if you want to).
You will then clearly see the data get appended to the URL, separated with a
'?'-letter as GET forms are supposed to.
5. PUT
The perhaps best way to upload data to a HTTP server is to use PUT. Then
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Put a file to a HTTP server with curl:
curl -t uploadfile www.uploadhttp.com/receive.cgi
curl -T uploadfile www.uploadhttp.com/receive.cgi
6. AUTHENTICATION
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curl -b "name=Daniel" www.cookiesite.com
Cookies are sent as common HTTP headers. This is practical as it allows curl
to record cookies simply by recording headers. Record cookies with curl by
using the -D option like:
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curl -b stored_cookies_in_file www.cookiesite.com
Curl's "cookie engine" gets enabled when you use the -b option. If you only
want curl to understand received cookies, use -b with a file that doesn't
exist. Example, if you want to let curl understand cookies from a page and
follow a location (and thus possibly send back cookies it received), you can
invoke it like:
curl -b nada -L www.cookiesite.com
11. HTTPS
There are a few ways to do secure HTTP transfers. The by far most common