- **status**: open --> open-confirmed
- **assigned_to**: Daniel Stenberg

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** [bugs:#1333] POSTing multiple files produces an invalid Content-Type line**
**Status:** open-confirmed
**Created:** Thu Feb 06, 2014 09:17 AM UTC by Rob Davies
**Last Updated:** Thu Feb 06, 2014 09:17 AM UTC
**Owner:** Daniel Stenberg
Running:
curl --noproxy '*' -F"upload=@/tmp/t1,/tmp/t2" 'http://localhost:8080/test'
sends this:
~~~~
POST /test HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
Host: localhost:8080
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 545
Expect: 100-continue
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------ac8fa3db5d68f39f
--------------------------ac8fa3db5d68f39f
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="upload"
Content-Type: multipart/mixed, boundary=------------------------0d5bb0db572656a0
--------------------------0d5bb0db572656a0
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="t1"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
t1
--------------------------0d5bb0db572656a0
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="t2"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
t2
--------------------------0d5bb0db572656a0--
--------------------------ac8fa3db5d68f39f--
~~~~
RFC2616 and RFC2045 state that the comma after "Content-Type: multipart/mixed" should be a semicolon.
The following patch fixes the issue:
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diff -Naur curl-7.35.0/lib/formdata.c curl-7.35.0.fix/lib/formdata.c
--- curl-7.35.0/lib/formdata.c	2014-01-05 22:07:54.000000000 +0000
+++ curl-7.35.0.fix/lib/formdata.c	2014-02-05 09:28:22.443251990 +0000
@@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@
       }
 
       result = AddFormDataf(&form, &size,
-                            "\r\nContent-Type: multipart/mixed,"
+                            "\r\nContent-Type: multipart/mixed;"
                             " boundary=%s\r\n",
                             fileboundary);
       if(result)
~~~~~~
Version info:
curl -V
curl 7.35.0 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.35.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp smtp smtps telnet tftp 
Features: IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz TLS-SRP 
Thanks,
Rob.
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