Hi.
I'm Ricardo Vila and i'm new to this mailing list.

Briefly: i'm facing a problem using command line curl in windows
platforms to send data stored in properties files. I hope somebody can
point me a solution.

Te complete situation is as follows. At Teimas, we have one app wich
accepts REST requests. This requests has a lot of fields so our
clients store the parameters in a properties file and then send it
with curl and the --data-binary option. Something like this (windows
example):

curl.exe -i -u :'some_token' -H "Accept: application/x-yaml" -H
"Content-type: text/plain" http://ourserver.com/api/nt/ --data-binary
@file.properties -X POST

This works fine running curl form linux and windows. But in windows
appears one problem when in the properties file, appears something
like this:

    documento.productor.centro.nombre=XESTION A CORUÑA, S.A.

The Ñ character is encoded (in windows clients) in a way that our
server cannot handle it and the rest of the line is trunked. So the
value on our server for this example is 'XESTION A CORU'

We have tried many things like:

  - Use --data-urlencode option (with and without changing content-type)
  - Use --data option
  - Use --data-urlencode with -crlf
  - May combination of the above options

I know that de manual page says ' The contents of the file must
already be URL-encoded.' but i wonder if i can let curl command manage
this.
¿I'm missing something? ¿Any idea?

Thanks in advance

--
Ricardo Vila Avendaño
Teimas Desenvolvemento S.L.
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