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Re: curl to POST to servlet without using a FORM

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:54:45 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Joe Ceklosky wrote:

> Is it possbile to POST to a URL using curl without using a form?

Indeed.

> I have a java servlet that reads XML from it's input stream and writes XML
> on it's output stream. Can curl be using to POST XML to this servlet?

Yes.

> If possbile, please cc my email address on the response.

You should probably need to use -d or the --data-binary command flags, and you
might want to use -H "Content-Type: text/xml" or similar.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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Received on 2003-07-28