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Re: curl error : word too long

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:56:09 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 24 May 2004, Siva wrote:

> So when i am using that in curl command i am getting error that "word
> too long" how can i solve this problem.
>
> Ex:
> /usr/bin/perl

I bet you meant /usr/bin/curl! ;-)

> -s -o 'outfile.html' -d "name=21309jekwhrfkjwqhrfiwqh
> ihdfkjashfkjhsdafkjhaskjdfhsakjfhkjsadh2314213423sdfsadf2134........ etc,"
> "http://domain.com"
>
> Error : word too long.

If you use -i or -v, I think you'll figure out that this error message is not
provided by curl. It is the actual contents that the site returns to you.

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Received on 2004-05-24