Hi,

Yes I tried it, but it gives me this curl error: "failed creating
formpost data".

Any other idea ?

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De: Joshua Cooke <joshuac35_at_inbox.com>
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À: curl with PHP <curl-and-php_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sujet: Re: file upload, Content-Type problem
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:39:30 +0000

Have you tried this?

$post_data = array('file' => '@/tmp/content.xml;type=text/xml');

Nicolas Rod wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to simulate an HTML upload form in order to send a request to
> a REST service, and I'm facing a problem with the body content of the
> request.
>
> I have to send an XML file to the service. After having tried a lot of
> things in my PHP code, I tried to send the XML file by using the 'curl'
> client in a Linux terminal and succeeded. This allowed me to inspect the
> data that are sent by sniffing my network, and I found a difference that
> seems to be the problem.
>
> ***********************************************************************************
>
> With the command line, in order to make it work, I had to use the -F
> option, with the name of the file + the type of the file:
>
> curl -F file="@content.xml;type=text/xml"
> "http://www.my-rest-service.com"
>
>
> (...)
> Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
> boundary=----------------------------ea2a22a059af
> (...)
> ----------------------------ea2a22a059af
> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="content.xml"
> Content-Type: text/xml
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> (...)
> ----------------------------ea2a22a059af
>
> ***********************************************************************************
> But with the following PHP code:
>
> $post_data = array('file' => '@/tmp/content.xml');
> curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
> curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
>
> (...)
> Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
> boundary=----------------------------d795ec2deb5c
> (...)
> ------------------------------d795ec2deb5c
> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="content.xml"
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> (...)
> ------------------------------d795ec2deb5c
>
> ***********************************************************************************
>
> As you can see, the value of the Content-Type is different
>
> curl client from a terminal :
> ------------------------------------
> Content-Type: text/xml
>
> CURL-PHP :
> --------------
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream
>
> Is there a way to set the value of this Content-Type with CURL-PHP ?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Nicolas
>
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>
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> Rue Général-Dufour 24
> 1204 Genève
>
> Tel. +41 22 379 11 19
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Received on 2009-10-29