On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Fluteau Jerome ICM N PG U PLM A 2 wrote:

> I succedeed in posting data with the method GET with the following code:

[snip]

> But for another formular, I would need to post a lot of data and it was not
> possible with this method (I get an error telling me that the url that I
> send is too big...) So CURLOPT_POST seemed to be a good way to do this job
> properly.

If the receiver wants a GET, you can't just do a POST at will. The receiving
end may not accept it.

> As you saw I need to make several request to reach the final form where I
> have to post my data. The problem is that when I use CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
> it seems that all my request have to use the POST method

Yes that's what POSTFIELDS means.

> and some of my pages don't like it: "HTTP method POST is not supported by
> this URL"

Right. You can't just use POST because you want to, the receiving site needs
to be made to accept it as well.

> So I have to mix the two methods but I don't know if Curl allows that???

You can't mix them, you either use GET or POST. That's a protocol thing, not
a curl limitation.

> So my questions are: - Is it possible to send a big amount of data with the
> GET method (it would be great because it already works for few data)!!!

curl sets *no* limitation here. You can fire away any-size-URL using curl,
but chances are that the receiving end is not accepting "extreme" sizes.

> - If not is it possible to mix POST and GET method?

No, you can't do that. But you can pass arguments in the URL string even when
you're doing a POST.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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