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Re: Question about binary transfers in POST requests [message #172282 is a reply to message #172272]

Wed, 09 February 2011 03:54

Jerry Stuckle
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On 2/8/2011 5:18 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm accessing an API that tells me I need to send the following
> information as part of a POST request:
>
> username
> password
> media
>
> Username and password are obviously passed via a url
> like&username=$username or whatever but media is confusing me. It
> needs to be the BINARY content of a media file. I'm using cURL to
> do the transfer and I suspect I'm going to use some setting like
> CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER but I'm not sure how to do it.
>
> Can anyone clue me in?
>
> Thanks!
> Anthony

Passing in the URL is for a GET request. For a POST request they need
to be passed as POST parameters.

And yes, to retrieve binary data you need to use CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER
(see curl_setopt). But other than that I'm not sure what your question is.

What have you tried?

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