Right, which in Perl means use pattern substitutions on regular
expression, such as :

$paramValue =~ s/=/%3D/g;

and, more generally, characters with special meaning in URLs should be 'urlencoded':

$paramValue =~ s|([+<>%"/?=&])|sprintf("%%%02X",ord($1))|g;

Philippe Paclet

Ralph Mitchell wrote:

>You could probably make it work by replacing the trailing equal sign
>with its hex equivalent, which would be %3D.
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> $paramValue ='ashjdakhd%3D'
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>The server ought to translate it back to the equivalent character
>before handing it to the application.
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>Ralph Mitchell
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>On 5/9/05, Irina Kuzes <kuzes_at_mindspring.com> wrote:
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>>I am new to cURL and would very much appreciate any help with the following:
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>>Is there any way to post a hidden field value into 'curl' if the value has
>>'=' - equal sign at the end of it?
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>>curl -d param=$paramValue
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>>where $paramValue ='ashjdakhd='
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>>Executing curl with a value like that gives an error message - "paramer
>>value is invalid".
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>>The rest of the script I am using is in perl.
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>>Thanks,
>>Irina
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Received on 2005-05-10