On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, Markus Moeller wrote:

> The problem I have is that my proxy is configured in a way that it only
> challenges the client when it POSTS a word document. So it means when the
> first POST request is made the uploaded file needs to be included.

Aha. This zero content-length POST request is because curl knows that the
first NTLM request will get another 401 so it makes no point in passing along
any data then.

This is a tiny shortcut and yes it does cause problems at times, like for your
case here. You can probably get around it by asking for --anyauth or similar
as then curl won't try that shortcut.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
-------------------------------------------------------------------
List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-users
FAQ:        http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html
Etiquette:  http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html