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Re: changing content-type of uploading file

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:08:41 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Tomas Kouba wrote:

> i would like to fill up a html form so I use -F option.
> One of the form's items is a file input.

> My problem is that I cannot specify content-type of this file.

You mean you don't know how to do it or that it doesn't work?

> Is it possible to do this with curl ? Or some kind of -H header ?

Did you try reading the manual? curl -M outputs a huge blurb and it includes
examples where -F is used when setting content-type.

Example:

  curl -F "coolfiles=@fil1.gif;type=image/gif" [URL]

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Received on 2003-03-11