On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Paul Jacobs wrote:

> After viewing the CURL website I believe this error relates to the inability
> of the program to read the file listed in the CURL command (extract from
> CURL website)
>
> CURLE_READ_ERROR (26)
> There was a problem reading a local file or an error
> returned by the read call-back.

>
> Usually at this point I would say the error is related to permissions on the
> server, but when I run the Curl command from the command line (logged in as
> Root), it works fine!!!!!! Yet the JRun server along with the Java
> application running on it, also run as Root and when it submits the command,
> it fails!
>
> I can't understand why this is happening!!!! Has anyone else experienced
> this issue. I can't figure out what is going on.

I can confirm that the only point where CURLE_READ_ERROR can be returned
within the formdata code, is when the file you want to upload can't be opened
(lib/formdata.c:1254).

I suggest you strace the curl command to find out details, or similar.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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