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Re: how to Post data WITHOUT form?

From: Tigersoft Development Group <tigersoft.dg_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 21:33:12 +0200

I'm writing a C program which needs to send raw data through HTTP
POST. do you have any example (with netcat too)?

2007/11/1, Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:30:18PM +0200, Tigersoft Development Group wrote:
> > Hello! I need to post raw data to http://server/page without any
> > form/field stuff. Just get data from char *data and send it to server.
> > After data is sent - I need to get a raw response as char *response.
> > Any suggestions? ;/
>
> If that's true, you don't need curl--you can do it with netcat. But chances
> are you don't want to send raw data over a socket, you want to send an HTTP
> POST request, or PUT or something similar, with a specific MIME type.
> Once you figure out what kind of request you want, then you can figure out
> how to do it in libcurl. The chances are high that you'll need the
> CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option, though.
>
> >>> Dan
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Received on 2007-11-01