Bugs item #1766458, was opened at 2007-08-02 14:39
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Category: client module
Group: wrong behaviour
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Matt Pulver (pulver)
Assigned to: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Summary: --form type= parameter isn't sent

Initial Comment:
Using version 7.16.4 of curl:

/var/tmp/curl-7.16.4/src/curl -F "order=@input.xml;type=application/xml" http://localhost/

produces the following in the logs on the localhost server:

SERVER_NAME: localhost
PATH_INFO: /
CONTENT_LENGTH: "1967"
HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE: multipart/form-data; boundary=----------------------------9ab4290e7a8a
HTTP_USER_AGENT: curl/7.16.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.16.4 OpenSSL/0.9.7e zlib/1.2.2 libidn/0.5.8
SCRIPT_NAME: /
SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
HTTP_HOST: localhost
REMOTE_ADDR: 10.0.0.10
SERVER_SOFTWARE: Mongrel 1.0.1
HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH: "1967"
REQUEST_PATH: /
CONTENT_TYPE: multipart/form-data; boundary=----------------------------9ab4290e7a8a
HTTP_VERSION: HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_URI: /
SERVER_PORT: "80"
GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.2
HTTP_EXPECT: 100-continue
HTTP_ACCEPT: "*/*"
REQUEST_METHOD: POST

Note the content-type begins with multipart/form-data. This should be application/xml as given by the type parameter to --form.

Version info:

$ /var/tmp/curl-7.16.4/src/curl -V
curl 7.16.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.16.4 OpenSSL/0.9.7e zlib/1.2.2 libidn/0.5.8
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap http file https ftps
Features: IDN Largefile NTLM SSL libz

Matt

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