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Re: Question about binary transfers in POST requests [message #172286 is a reply to message #172272]

Wed, 09 February 2011 07:06

Felix Saphir
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Anthony Papillion <papillion(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> 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.

There's no need for CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER. The trick is to
prepend the filename with '@' like this:

$postdata = array(
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password,
'media' => "@$file['tmp_name']",
);

You then add your data to the cURL request:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);

It's all in the manual btw ...

Felix

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