On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Kyle Welsh wrote:
>
> Please don't top-post.
>
>> I believe I need a multipart frompost. Just having problem with filling in
>> a box with spaces, line breaks and returns.
>
> Really?
>
>> When I try encode it manually it does not seem to work.
>> E.G.
>> -F "This%20is%20a%20string"
>
> That's not how it works.
>
> First, use LiveHTTPHeaders and see what your browser does. There you'll
> learn that multipart formposts sends the data as-is unencoded and just
> separates the data pieces with separators. -F "name=this is a string" is how
> it is supposed to be done.
>
> Of course, if you want to feed newlines you'll need to play with your
> command line or use other curl tricks like -F "name=<filename" or similar.
>
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Using LiveHTTPHeaders worked wonders.
Thanks for all the help.

Regards
Kyle Welsh
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Received on 2010-09-14