Send message from linux terminal to some web server

Question

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

Answer 1

The man page for wget has some examples, e.g.

wget --save-cookies cookies.txt \
  --post-data 'user=foo&password=bar' \
   http://server.com/auth.php