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Re: Uploading from files whose name contains a comma

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:16:28 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Stefan Klinger wrote:

> To me it seems impossible to post data from a file whose path contains a
> comma:
>
> $ echo hello > a
> $ mkdir x,y
> $ echo world > x,y/b
> $ curl -F 'aaa=@a' -F 'bbb=@x,y/b' stefan-klinger.de

Right, -F has no way to "quote" the comma so this is limitation of how it can
be used. A work-around is of corse to rename the dir/file before the upload
(and then rename it back). I'd be interested in a patch that fixes this
oversight.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2009-07-16