curl-users
Re: Post a file to a URL
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:24:34 -0400
Thanks Ramesh, but i still have a problem after increasing the timeout to 20
and the connect to 20...
C:\Boeing>"C:\Boeing\curl.exe" --connect-time 20 --max-time 20 -F
input_file=@"C
:\Boeing\V34True.ucf;type=multipart/form-data;"
http://157.184.32.21/cgi-bin/dyn
amic/config/secure/importsettings.html
<HTML><HEAD><LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="/configStyle.css" TYPE="text/css">
<TITLE>File Received</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY><H1>File Received</H1><HR SIZE=2 ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH="75%" NOSHADE><A
HREF="/
cgi-bin/dynamic/config/gen/importexport.html">Return</A>
</<BODY></HTML>
On 10/18/07, Babu, Ramesh (LBD) <Ramesh.Babu_at_lombardvm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> user --connect-time parameter in your command, increase value for
> --max-time. I hope the problem is with your netwrok.
>
> if you specify --connect-time 10
>
> CURL waits 10 seconds to connect to URL, if it is connected, command will
> be executed. If not, gives the error mentioned by you. Mention this
> parameter before --max-time.
>
> --max-time 6, curl waits 6 seconds to finish the command. If command
> couldn't finish in 6 second, it returns error message.
>
> so increase parameters for --connect-time and --max-time or remove these
> parameters from your command. I hope this works fine.
>
>
> Ramesh Babu
> ------------------------------
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> curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] *On Behalf Of *Will Weatherford
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 18, 2007 2:06 PM
> *To:* curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se
> *Subject:* Post a file to a URL
>
> cURL Users,
>
> I am trying to post a file to a URL (hosted by a printer) via cURL.
> When I do it through FireFox with HTTPHeadaers on I get:
>
> http://157.184.32.21/cgi-bin/importfile/cgi-bin/dynamic/config/secure/importsettings.html
>
>
> POST /cgi-bin/importfile/cgi-bin/dynamic/config/secure/importsettings.html
> HTTP/1.1
> Host: 157.184.32.21
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv: 1.8.1.7)
> Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7
> Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9
> ,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
> Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
> Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
> Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
> Keep-Alive: 300
> Connection: keep-alive
> Referer: http://157.184.32.21/cgi-bin/dynamic/config/secure/importsettings.html
>
> Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
> boundary=---------------------------19074277212554
> Content-Length: 253
> -----------------------------19074277212554
> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="input_file"; filename=" V34False.ucf
> "
> Content-Type: application/x-download
>
> // anything
>
> mfp.fax.enableV34 "false"
>
> -----------------------------19074277212554--
>
> HTTP/1.x 200 OK
> Content-Type: text/html
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> http://157.184.32.21/cgi-bin/dynamic/config/gen/importexport.html
>
> GET /cgi-bin/dynamic/config/gen/importexport.html HTTP/1.1
> Host: 157.184.32.21
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv: 1.8.1.7)
> Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7
> Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q= 0.9
> ,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
> Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
> Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
> Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
> Keep-Alive: 300
> Connection: keep-alive
> Referer:
> http://157.184.32.21/cgi-bin/importfile/cgi-bin/dynamic/config/secure/importsettings.html
>
> HTTP/1.x 200 OK
> Expires: Sun, 27 Feb 1972 08:00:00 GMT
> Pragma: no-cache
> Cache-Control: no-cache
> Content-Type: text/html
>
> I have tried posting the file V34True.ucf with this command:
>
> "C:\Boeing\curl.exe" --max-time 6 -F
> input_file=@"C:\Boeing\V34True.ucf;type=multipart/form-data" http://157.184.31.21/cgi-bin/dynamic/config/secure/importsettings.html
> > "C:\Boeing\V34TrueUCFOutput.txt"
>
> The contents of V34True.ucf:
>
> // anything
>
> mfp.fax.enableV34 "true
>
>
> This is what I get when I run the command from the DOS box:
>
> C:\Boeing>"C:\Boeing\curl.exe" --max-time 6 -F
> input_file=@"C:\Boeing\V34True .uc
> f;type=multipart/form-data" http://157.184.31.21/cgi-bin/dynamic/config/secure/
>
> importsettings.html > "C:\Boeing\V34TrueUCFOutput.txt"
>
> curl: (28) connect() timed out!
>
> C:\Boeing>
>
>
>
> Any advice on posting this file would be appreciated.
>
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Received on 2007-10-18