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Commit e67157b5 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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Added some more explanatory text about HTTP posts

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curl -d "name=Rafael%20Sagula&phone=3320780" \
http://www.where.com/guest.cgi
How to post a form with curl, lesson #1:
Dig out all the <input> tags in the form that you want to fill in. (There's
a perl program called formfind.pl on the curl site that helps with this).
If there's a "normal" post, you use -d to post. -d takes a full "post
string", which is in the format
<variable1>=<data1>&<variable2>=<data2>&...
The 'variable' names are the names set with "name=" in the <input> tags, and
the data is the contents you want to fill in for the inputs. The data *must*
be properly URL encoded. That means you replace space with + and that you
write weird letters with %XX where XX is the hexadecimal representation of
the letter's ASCII code.
Example:
(page located at http://www.formpost.com/getthis/
<form action="post.cgi" method="post">
<input name=user size=10>
<input name=pass type=password size=10>
<input name=id type=hidden value="blablabla">
<input name=ding value="submit">
</form>
We want to enter user 'foobar' with password '12345'.
To post to this, you enter a curl command line like:
curl -d "user=foobar&pass=12345&id=blablabla&dig=submit" (continues)
http://www.formpost.com/getthis/post.cgi
While -d uses the application/x-www-form-urlencoded mime-type, generally
understood by CGI's and similar, curl also supports the more capable
multipart/form-data type. This latter type supports things like file upload.
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