Hi Mark,

Maybe just a quick pass of your PDF file thru UUENCODE would suffice? Like

curl "file=`cat uuencode file.pdf file.uue`

HTH

KC

On 7/18/06, Mark Wold <mark.wold_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am wondering if any progress has been made for adding the --data-encode
> option to the curl command line? I've been trying to use curl to "post" a
> pdf file as a byte array but some of the binary information within the pdf
> file keeps getting trounced on. For instance:
>
> curl --data-binary "file=`cat file.pdf`"
> http://xxx.yyy.com/cgi-bin/receiving_program
>
> works OK. But when the PDF file has any type of stream data within it, it
> gets hosed. I've programmed my receiving program on the server to make a
> dumpfile of the entire query_string and I can see there that the binary
> portions of the PDF file are junk.
>
> --
> MW
>
Received on 2006-07-26