Re: How to send form data?

On 2020-07-06 18:30, Peng Yu via curl-users wrote:
>I see the following form data in chrome browser devtools for a POST
>request. But the file content is not included due to a limitation in
>devtools. Could anybody let me know how to call curl to send this form
>data with the proper file content loaded? (I know the option of ` -F
>file="@27098227.pdf"`, I am not sure how to combine it with the other
>form data in this request.) Thanks.
>
>------WebKitFormBoundaryBUU5EAq8M5IgOHNe
>Content-Disposition: form-data; name="name"
>
>27098227.pdf
>------WebKitFormBoundaryBUU5EAq8M5IgOHNe
>Content-Disposition: form-data; name="chunk"
>
>0
>------WebKitFormBoundaryBUU5EAq8M5IgOHNe
>Content-Disposition: form-data; name="chunks"
>
>1
>------WebKitFormBoundaryBUU5EAq8M5IgOHNe
>Content-Disposition: form-data; name="task"
>
>t50Ap8gfmsfzmd1f9pktlAzcmbv9s3kpxxvjA4mqsycbmx66nl1bm7jc7h4j465zdm5hz2hvccqmlhy9hA6yn3tn590w3ld9yA7smb7dqj7kczdr9AjA3m7hAb1xpr4ys6zr4s0ryzpkl85b24vtp3hAz2w6bj6l6xc16dg384w7qmlt7hxq
>------WebKitFormBoundaryBUU5EAq8M5IgOHNe
>Content-Disposition: form-data; name="preview"
>
>1
>------WebKitFormBoundaryBUU5EAq8M5IgOHNe
>Content-Disposition: form-data; name="pdfinfo"
>
>0
>------WebKitFormBoundaryBUU5EAq8M5IgOHNe
>Content-Disposition: form-data; name="v"
>
>web.0
>------WebKitFormBoundaryBUU5EAq8M5IgOHNe
>Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="27098227.pdf"
>Content-Type: application/pdf
>
>
>------WebKitFormBoundaryBUU5EAq8M5IgOHNe--
>
>--
>Regards,
>Peng

You can also use the -F option to send out your form data in addition to
the file:
curl -F name=27098227.pdf -F preview=0 -F v=web.0 --trace-ascii /dev/stdout http://your-url.com

I've added the --trace-ascii option to output the form params on stdout.

Nicolas.
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Received on 2020-07-07