Hello,

I'm new to the more advanced uses of the curl command line tool, such as
scripting to upload files via http.

I'm attempting to upload a file to a form that looks like this:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="kget.php" method="post">
  <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="1000000" />
  <input name="uploaded_file" type="file" />
  <input type="submit" name="go" value="Upload" />
</form>

I have tried the methods suggested in this helpful document:

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html

... but can't seem to get it to work.

My command line looks like this:

curl -F uploaded_file=/home/tpost/desktop/patch -F go=Upload [url]

The url is http://localhost/index.php, where lighttpd is running and
handling the form via php.

Verbose output from curl looks like this:

* About to connect() to localhost port 80
* Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 80
> POST /index.php HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.15.4 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.4
OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.3
> Host: localhost
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 270
> Expect: 100-continue
> Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
boundary=----------------------------aa8f6f94e571
>
< HTTP/1.1 417 Expectation Failed
< Connection: close
< Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 05:43:07 GMT
< Server: lighttpd/1.4.17
* Closing connection #0

As indicated above, I am using curl 7.15.4 (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
libcurl/7.15.4 on an Ubuntu GNU/Linux (edgy) machine.

The upload works when done manually via browser, I must be doing
something incorrectly with curl. Does anyone see where I'm going wrong?

Thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to help.

Cheers!
--Tim

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