According to the man page:

   "If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a file name
to read the data from"

So, --data-ascii="@filename" ought to do it.

Ralph Mitchell

On 6/7/06, Nivedan Nadaraj <nnadaraj_at_erggroup.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I need to post a chunk of data i.e a HTTP message content across. Using
> --data-ascii I am able to do that by pasting the chunk of data.
> However if I needed to do the same by having the chunk of data in a text
> file, how would I be able to do that ?
>
> e.g --data-ascii="<xml-root><sometag>55</sometag></xmlroot>" // This
> works
>
> e.g --data-ascii= ?? Can I specify a way to indicate where to pick the
> content from ?
>
> Any help appreciate
> Thanks
>
>
> Nivedan Nadaraj
>
Received on 2006-06-08