On Tue, 3 May 2011, Andrej van der Zee wrote:

> curl -d @request.xml -H "content-type: application/octet-stream"
> localhost/cgi-bin/xxx.cgi
>
> Is it possible to send request.xml compressed? How should I do this? I
> am using Ubuntu Maverick.

$ gzip request.xml
$ curl -d @request.xml.gz -H "content-type: application/octet-stream
localhost/cgi-bin/xxx.cgi

... there's no way to automatically do compression of HTTP requests.

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