HI,

I'm using the cURL binary to perform a HTTP POST to a web page within
PHP Code. 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" in PHP to call curl.

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

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Received on 2002-08-21