On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Zhang, David wrote:

> Curl -H 'POST /myServlet HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Java1.3.0 Host:
> myWebsite.com:80 Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*;
> q=.2 Connection: keep-alive Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> Content-length: 256 -d 'data' http://myWebsite.com/myServlet:80

1. The "POST" is not a header, it is the request itself. You can't replace
   that with -H. -d makes it a POST.

2. Each header you want to replace/add must be specified with a separate -H,
   like in -H "User-Agent: Java1.3.0" -H "Accept: text/html"

3. I advice not you fool around and replacing the Content-length header,
   you'll only end up shooting yourself in the foot.

4. -d POSTs imply "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" by default

5. curl sets Host: header fine by itself so you don't need to set it when
   you're not trying something funny (like using a different Host: than what
   is in the URL)

6. "Connection: keep-alive" will not add any functionality to curl's request,
   AFAICS

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