On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, David Durant wrote:

> Is there a way to send raw data (text/xml) inside the headers of a POST
> command?

Data in the headers? Sure, providing any header with any content is possible
with curl.

> I'm trying to emulate the output javascript output of
> ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"), which injects the request data into the
> headers. Everything I've tried with curl and/or http_post_data sends the
> headers with "Expect: 100-continue", waits for the Continue response from
> the server (which it gets), then sends the data. Unfortunately this is not
> working correctly.

You mean the server isn't behaving correctly?

> POST / HTTP/1.1
> Accept: */*
> Accept-Language: en-us
> Referer: file://C:\Users\Dave\Documents\RealQuest Info\c2dtest.htm
> UA-CPU: x86
> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1;
> .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR
> 1.1.4322)
> Host: staging.connect2data.com
> Content-Length: 1062
> Connection: Keep-Alive
> Cache-Control: no-cache
>
> <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>

This is a plain and simple POST and yes PHP/CURL can do them.

> Notice the headers end with "Cache-Control: no-cache" followed by \r\n, then
> the xml data. Can this be done with curl?

Yes. But there's no particular "data in headers" here, there's just
request-headers and a request-body with the XML in the body part...

Here's an example for you:

http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/php/examples/blogpost.html

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