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Re: Content-Disposition headers

From: <mtnlyon001_at_aol.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:28:24 -0400

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-----Original Message-----
From: daniel_at_haxx.se
To: curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se
Sent: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: Content-Disposition headers

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Ed S. Peschko wrote:
 
> Also, it looks like the boundary is too long, and has too many '----' in it.
> The form that works looks like:
>
> Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=xYzZY
>
> --xYzZY
 
The boundary strings curl uses mimic the ones IE sends or at least used to send, to minimize the risk that you run into problems with stupid server side scripts. If your server end has problems with this, it implies that script won't work with IE.
 
> Anyways, these are the only differences in the curl send data (which doesn't > work) and the perl send data (which does..). Any tips on customizing the > curl forms so they exactly match the perl would be greatly appreciated..
 
The boundary string in curl is not customizable. The other part was answered to by Dan F.
 
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Received on 2007-03-12