omg that was it.

thank you!
It makes perfect sense that I need to declare the Submit.
thanks again

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-curl_at_contactor.se [mailto:owner-curl_at_contactor.se]On Behalf
Of Daniel Stenberg
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 1:37 PM
To: Curl Mailinglist
Subject: Re: having troubles with -F option

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Terry Davis wrote:

> Here is the command I am running:

> curl -F "custid=8888" -F "thefile=@/home/td/test.h"
> http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/upfile.cgi
>
> Here is the html source of the form:

I removed everything that wasn't related to the actual form:

> <FORM METHOD=POST ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"
> ACTION="./cgi-bin/upfile.cgi" >
> <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="custid" ></TD>
> <INPUT TYPE=FILE NAME="thefile" ></TD>
> <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT NAME="Submit" VALUE="Submit">
> </FORM>

> Thank you for any help on this.

Your command line looks fine, except that you didn't include '-F
"Submit=Submit"' which may or may not be important in this case.

Also, you didn't mention in what way your command line doesn't work.

-- 
     Daniel Stenberg -- curl dude -- http://curl.haxx.se/