On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 06:13:53PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote:
> Peter Sylvester <Peter.Sylvester_at_edelweb.fr> wrote:
> > When using curl with a proxy and a POST, it seems that curl
> > starts sending Content-length: 0 in order to detect somehow
> > whether the proxy requires some authentication.
> >
> > Is there a way to avoid this, i.e. to send the real Content-Length
> > immediately?
>
> At least for me that seems to be the default:

IIRC, something like the Content-length: 0 behaviour was the default
a LONG time ago, like the 7.10.8 time frame. What version is this
happening on? Can you show us a command-line that exhibits this
behaviour, and debug logs if possible? And note that the size of
any input files can change the behaviour. See also
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html#My_HTTP_POST_or_PUT_requests_are

>>> Dan
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Received on 2011-01-24