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You probably request this: -F/--form name=content (HTTP) This lets curl emulate a filled-in form in which a user has pressed the submit button. This causes curl to POST data using the Content- Type multipart/form-data according to RFC2388. This enables uploading of binary files etc.
To POST a file with curl , simply add the @ symbol before the file location. The file can be an archive, image, document, etc.
To post a file with Curl, use the -d or -F command-line options and start the data with the @ symbol followed by the file name. To send multiple files, repeat the -F option several times.
HTTP is perfectly capable of handling binary data: images are sent over HTTP all the time, and they're binary. People upload and download files of arbitrary data types all the time with no problem.
You don't need --header "Content-Length: $LENGTH".
curl --request POST --data-binary "@template_entry.xml" $URL
Note that GET request does not support content body widely.
Also remember that POST request have 2 different coding schema. This is first form:
$ nc -l -p 6666 & $ curl --request POST --data-binary "@README" http://localhost:6666 POST / HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: curl/7.21.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8o zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.15 libssh2/1.2.6 Host: localhost:6666 Accept: */* Content-Length: 9309 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Expect: 100-continue .. -*- mode: rst; coding: cp1251; fill-column: 80 -*- .. rst2html.py README README.html .. contents::
You probably request this:
-F/--form name=content
(HTTP) This lets curl emulate a filled-in form in
which a user has pressed the submit button. This
causes curl to POST data using the Content- Type
multipart/form-data according to RFC2388. This
enables uploading of binary files etc. To force the
'content' part to be a file, prefix the file name
with an @ sign. To just get the content part from a
file, prefix the file name with the symbol <. The
difference between @ and < is then that @ makes a
file get attached in the post as a file upload,
while the < makes a text field and just get the
contents for that text field from a file.
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