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Re: Multipart Forms and File Downloads

From: James Wright <jameswright_at_drag-and-drop.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:55:35 +0100

Sure puts my use of cURL into perspective!

James.

On 25 Oct 2005, at 16:16, schawk wrote:

> Dear All
> I am a Chinese. I will thank every developer of cURL. I use
> cURL to send
> more message to people in China mainland to alarm the serious bird
> flu or
> else. Because the China goverment always blocks message in internet
> like
> SARS. Media, internet, TV, and news block make more people die.
> Thanks again.
>
> schawk
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_haxx.se>
> To: "the curl tool" <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Multipart Forms and File Downloads
>
>
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Huntress Gary B NPRI wrote:
>
>
>> If I encode the form parameters normally and submit them using -d
>> "STAGROW=EXISTINGFILE&...." the server seems to reply that I have not
>> checked any boxes.
>>
>
> Use LiveHTTPHeaders and see what your browser sends, then send that
> same
> data
> with curl.
>
>
>> Can curl support multiple file downloads from multipart forms?
>>
>
> There's nothing in the HTTP standards that offers "multiple file
> downloads"
> AFAIK. You need to tell us more details on exactly how this is done to
> enable
> us to answer this.
>
>
>> If so, do I submit my form data using -d ?
>>
>
> If the form is a regular (non-multipart) form, then -d is your weapon.
>
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Received on 2005-10-25