Could there be a -G somewhere in your data.txt file? If it ended up in just the right place, I suppose it could have triggered curl's '--get' mode, where -d (POST) request gets turned into a GET request instead...

I believe your script is slightly flawed though. Instead of:

  data=`cat $1`
  ...
  curl ... -d "@$data"

I think you actually need:

  curl ... -d "@$1"

The @-sign tells curl to do the reading from the file, so your cat command is unnecessary.

You might also need to use --data-binary (if you require preserving newlines and other less-than-printable characters).

- Kevin

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Received on 2003-07-31