3.11 How do I POST with a different Content-Type?

Updated: May 15, 2001 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.shtml)

Updated: May 29, 2001 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.shtml)

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  3.8 How do I tell curl to follow HTTP redirects?

  3.9 How do I use curl in PHP, Perl, Tcl, Ruby or Java?

  3.10 What about SOAP, WebDAV, XML-RPC or similar protocols over HTTP?

  3.11 How do I POST with a different Content-Type?

 4. Running Problems

  4.1 Problems connecting to SSL servers.

  Using libcurl or PHP's curl modules is just as fine and you'd just use the

  proper library options to do the same.

  3.11 How do I POST with a different Content-Type?

  You can always replace the internally generated headers with -H/--header.

  To make a simple HTTP POST with text/xml as content-type, do something like:

        curl -d "datatopost" -H "Content-Type: text/xml" [URL]

4. Running Problems

  4.1. Problems connecting to SSL servers.