I am trying to figure out how I can post a message to an http server from the linux shell. What I want is for the shell to post the message and then I can write a small php program to reroute the message to its intended recipient based on the contents and the sender. I cant seem to find a command to do this in Linux. I would really like to stick to a built in utility.
If there is a better frame work that you can think of please let me know.
Thanks
If you want to stick with built in tools use wget and refer to this SO post about posting data with wget: How to get past the login page with Wget?.
You’re going to have to send your data in the post data section and format it on your server side PHP script.