I captured the output but am still not sure how to read the output and
convert to a curl statement. Can someone help me with a little more
information?

http://webcastinabox.com/projects/podasp/livehttp.txt

Thanks, I am learning a lot!

Chris

On 11/23/05, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Chris Dawson wrote:
>
> > I am trying to make a post to an HTTPS server with curl. The server
> > requires me to login and store a session cookie which I can then use on
> > subsequent requests, and this works fine. I cannot make a file post,
> > however, and am unsure why. I used --trace trace.txt and this provides
> me
> > with a trace file that indicates the server has responded with
> "Expectation
> > failed." I don't really know what to make of this.
>
> You should use LiveHTTPHeaders and capture a session you do manually, and
> then
> compare that with the trace from curl. It should give you a pretty good
> idea
> of what the differences are.
>
> > More context: the form which I am posting to has several variables
> which I
> > think I need to post as well. So, the form looks like this:
> >
> > <form>
> > <input type="text" name="episode[title]">
> > <input type="text" name="episode[description]">
> > <input type="file" name="episode_mp3_file">
> > <submit>
> > </form>
> >
> > The command I am using for curl is this:
> > curl -b jar.txt -c jar.txt --trace trace.txt -k -F "episode_mp3_file=@
> > small.mp3" https://podasp.com/episode/create
>
> So your command line doesn't add two of the parts, which very well might
> be
> the reason for the server's message.
>
> > Does this indicate that I am not sending the form variables
> "episode[title]"
> > for example?
>
> I would assume so.
>
> > I think the server does require at least some of these variables in
> order to
> > process the request, but this error message seems to me to be before the
> > upload even begins, so I wonder how the server knows to do this.
>
> It could possibly be that the server requires the fields to come in a
> specific
> order and it checks them immediately on "arrival" and thus can reject the
> POST
> early. But this is pure speculations on my behalf.
>
> > I tried to post form variables alongside the file post (with -d
> > "episode[title]=Upload") but I got a complaint: "You can only select
> one
> > HTTP request!"
>
> You need to add those parts with -F as well. -d implies a "plain" POST,
> while
> -F builds a series of parts for a multipart formpost.
>
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Received on 2005-11-24