I am using:

curl 7.14.0 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.14.0 OpenSSL/0.9.7g zlib/1.2.3
libidn/0.5.13

I'll see if I can get a regular post without a file to show me more
headers. If I use the -F switch, do I need to provide another switch to
curl as well when doing a multipart form POST?

I should mention that curl is absolutely awesome. A command line tool with
this incredible functionality and impeccable design is rare and beautiful!

Thanks for your help.

Chris

On 11/25/05, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Chris Dawson wrote:
>
> > I'm sorry if I am being dense, but when I run with --trace-ascii, I see
> > this:
> >
> > 0095: Accept: */*
> > 00a2: Cookie: _session_id=9d7d245d2f5103092266f026e870ba2b
> > 00d8: Content-Length: 137114
> > 00f0: Expect: 100-continue
> > 0106: Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=--------------------
> > 0146: --------edadd7db6abb
> > 015c:
> > <= Recv header, 33 bytes (0x21)
>
> Does it really stop there? That's the first few headers of the formpost
> request curl sends.
>
> > Am I wrong in thinking that it is truncating the entire message sent to
> the
> > server?
>
> --trace doesn't truncate anything. It shows the lot.
>
> > Obviously this would be useful because I am sending a large file and
> don't
> > really care to see 2 MB of base64 encoded characters, but I would prefer
> to
> > see at least the first few hundred to verify that my message is proper.
>
> Then you need to patch the code, as curl doesn't offer any such way.
>
> > But, I don't see anything past the boundary marker.
>
> Then there's something really wrong.
>
> > Am I misunderstanding the output from trace, or is trace indicating that
> I
> > am not providing the proper switches to curl to add those items to the
> form
> > submission?
>
> I don't know why it would stop there. If there was a lack of switches or
> whatever, curl is supposed to tell exactly that and not just abort a
> request
> in the middle.
>
> Did you ever mention what curl version you're using?
>
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Received on 2005-11-25