curl-users
Re: Curl -F didn't upload file but return the form itself
From: xi chum <xi_chum_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:47:49 +1000
Received on 2006-04-06
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:47:49 +1000
Doh!!!
Thanks Daniel,
Xi Chum.
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Reply-To: the curl tool <curl-users@cool.haxx.se>
To: the curl tool <curl-users@cool.haxx.se>
Subject: Re: Curl -F didn't upload file but return the form itself
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 23:27:31 +0200 (CEST)
>On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, xi chum wrote:
>
>>/usr/bin/curl -F "xmlfile=@101.xml"
>>http://localhost:8080/test/upload.html
>
>I would say that it is highly unlikely that you send any upload to a
>HTML file. Normally you send it to some kind of script/CGI that
>receives it.
>
>That HTML file most probably contains a <form> and that has an
>action attribute pointing out the correct URL you actually want for
>this.
>
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