Hi Marc

Thanks for the response, which for future reference, is correct. As
soon as I realized this, I felt kind of dumb, but I did say it was a
newbie question!

Howard

On 4/14/12 3:59 AM, Marc Hoersken wrote:
> Hi Howard,
>
> the header part you are trying to "modify" is not a POST field, but
> the actual request path of the URL.
>
> This means you have to set the option CURLOPT_URL to the full URL,
> including the path, e.g.:
> http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTURL
>
> Where curl.haxx.se is the domain, and /libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html
> the request path.
>
> Best regards,
> Marc
>
> 2012/4/13 Howard<howard_at_renci.org>:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I hope this is the correct list for this question. If not, please let me
>> know which mailing list to use.
>>
>> I am using the c language libcurl API and I am trying to generate a POST
>> header that looks like:
>>
>> POST /cmd/put HTTP/1.1
>>
>> So far I've not been able to figure out how to customize the POST header to
>> add the "/cmd/put". I've tried using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, but that didn't
>> seem to help.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks much
>> Howard
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>> Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
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