Thanks for your reply.

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

I think gzip writes headers about the file in the gz-file. The cgi-app does not expect these headers and fails on it, it seems.

I guess I will have to write a small program with libcurl and zlib, as I cannot find any option in gzip to remove the headers.

Cheers,
Andrej
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Received on 2011-05-03