Jared,
    You want something like:

curl -H "Host: www.xyz.com" -H "Authorization: Basic <encoded authorization
     string here>" -H "Accept: */*" -d @data.txt https://www.xyz.com/csw/serv
     let/xmlrequest

David

> HI,

> I'm trying to do an https/post of some xml to a url where I'll get a result
> returned. I'm supposed to include authentication data in the header. Here's
> what I've done.

> 1. Created a file called header.txt with the following data:

> # cat header.txt
> POST http://www.xyz.com/csw/servlet/xmlrequest HTTP/1.0

> Host: www.xyz.com

> Authorization: Basic <encoded authorization sting here>

> Accept: */*

> Content-Type: text/plain

> Content-Length: 452

> 2. Created a file called data.txt where the post data is URI encoded

> # cat data.txt
> %3Ccasa%3E%3Caccount%3E%3Ccustomerid%3E1000%3C%2Fcustomerid%3E%3Cuserid%3E49
> %3C%2Fuserid%3E%3C%2Faccount%3E%3Cproperty%3E%3Cpropstreet%3E18808%20oldhome
> stead%3C%2Fpropstreet%3E%3Cpropunit%3E%3C%2Fpropunit%3E%3Cpropcity%3Eharper%
> 20woods%3C%2Fpropcity%3E%3Cpropstate%3EMi%3C%2Fpropstate%3E%3Cpropzip%3E4822
> 5%3C%2Fpropzip%3E%3Cproptype%3E%3C%2Fproptype%3E%3C%2Fproperty%3E%3Coptional
> %3E%3Ctracking%3E%3Ctracknum%3E987654321%3C%2Ftracknum%3E%3Ctrackname%3EJohn
> %20Smith%3C%2Ftrackname%3E%3C%2Ftracking%3E%3C%2Foptional%3E%3C%2Fcasa%3E

> 3. Run the following command and get the following error:

> # /usr/local/bin/curl -b header.txt -f "file=@data.txt"
> https://www.xyz.com/csw/servlet/xmlrequest
> password:
> curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'data.txt'
> curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 405

> Since I'm getting a 405, I know I'm getting to the server, but the 405 tells
> me that the method is not allowed. This server does support POST's.

> Any recommendations?

> Thanks,

> Jared

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