But I have the file size ahead of time and have supplied it in the headers
as Content-Length.

-Charles

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 05:30:19PM -0800, Charles Pritchard wrote:
> > How would I signal to CURL that I want to PUT data from STDIN without
> using
> > chunked encoding and without buffering?
> >
> > Currently, -T triggers chunked encoding, I don't want that.
> >
> > I already know the content length ahead of time, so I don't need curl
> buffering
> > the full data into memory as it does with --data-binary @-.
>
> To avoid chunked uploading, HTTP requires the size of the file in advance.
> The
> only way curl has to provide that information is to look it up in the
> filesystem, so you can't avoid chunked transfers in this case.
>
> >>> Dan
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