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Ok, nice. How do I find out what Curl sends over the network?

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Re^3: XPOST syntax in WWW::Curl
by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 01, 2015 at 13:46 UTC

    Either use Wireshark or look at the Curl documentation. On a quick glance, either --verbose or --trace make Curl dump everything it sends or receives.

    Again, you will have to learn Curl and HTTP in either case, so now is a good time to start with that.

    As I now found out, I already said the same, even more verbose, in Re: CURL and Perl (it rhymes!). So maybe re-reading that thread helps.

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      Hi Corion,

      So I tried the -v option and I got some more info, which follows, but I wouldn't know how to match this to the code you posted in the other thread.

      It seems to do a POST and then there seem to be some fields with some values, is that correct? Like User-Agent: curl/7.35.0

      What do you think?

      Steve. 

      * Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
*   Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
+  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
+  Speed

  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:
+--     0* Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) port 8098 (#0
+)
> POST /api/resultados/ HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
> Host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8098
> Accept: */*
> Authorization: Token xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Content-Length: 949
> Expect: 100-continue
> Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------
+daf19fd44f6a97e8
> 
* Done waiting for 100-continue

  0   949    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:
+--     0} [data not shown]
< HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
< HTTP/1.1 201 CREATED
* Server nginx/1.1.19 is not blacklisted
< Server: nginx/1.1.19
< Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:48:34 GMT
< Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< 
< [data not shown]
Connection: keep-alive
< Vary: Accept
< X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
< Allow: GET, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS
< 
{ [data not shown]

100  1142    0   193  100   949     84    416  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:
+--   416
100  1142    0   193  100   949     84    416  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:
+--   416
* Connection #0 to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx left intact

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        Now would be a good time to learn about HTTP, so you learn what the headers mean, and what the payload of the request means, and how you can replicate that with LWP::UserAgent (or any other HTTP client). I don't see much way around that.

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Re^3: XPOST syntax in WWW::Curl
by LanX (Saint) on Feb 01, 2015 at 13:46 UTC
    Did you read the thread you linked to in the OP?

    Cheers Rolf

    PS: Je suis Charlie!

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      Hi Rolf, Of course I read it, but nothing really gelled.

      Steve

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