Question

I’m trying to figure out how to get a server to accept a file through HTTP post in one step – without going through all the trouble of creating an html form and clicking the submit button.

I know how to write a PHP/HTML package that accomplishes the following:

• user points their local browser to a URL with an upload form
• user selects a local file and clicks “upload” button on the form
• server accepts that file and places it in a specified place

I create an HTML file with a form that calls a php script when the submit button is clicked.

I’d like to change this to the following:

• From command line, user executes the following command:
  “curl -X POST @somefile http://myhost/getter.php”
• server (myhost) accepts that file and places it in a specified place

Said another way, I’d like to send the file directly to the php script without going through the form step.

Much thanks for any guidance.

Answer 1

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html

4.3 File Upload POST

<form method="POST" enctype='multipart/form-data' action="upload.cgi">
  <input type=file name=upload>
  <input type=submit name=press value="OK">
</form>

command line equivalent:

 curl --form upload=@localfilename --form press=OK [URL]