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http_post(1) General Commands Manual http_post(1) NAME http_post - do a POST to an HTTP URL SYNOPSIS http_post [-t timeout] [-r referrer] [-u user-agent] [-a username:password] [-c cookie] [-h header value (R).RB [ -v ] url [-f] name=value ... DESCRIPTION http_post Http_post does a POST operation to an HTTP URL and dumps the re- sults to stdout. It does not do gopher, ftp, file, news, or any other type of URL, only HTTP. It can be configured to do HTTPS POSTs as well. The -t flag specifies a timeout in seconds. If that much time passes with no activity, the post is aborted. The default is 60 seconds. The -r flag specifies a referrer header to send. Some tightly-clenched web admins like to jigger their server to only return files if the proper re- ferrer is given. The -u flag specifies a User-Agent header to send. Some *really* tightly- clenched web admins like to jigger their server to only return files if a well-known User-Agent is given. The -a flag lets you do Basic Authentication. The -c flag lets you pass in a cookie. The -h flag lets you pass in one extra header. The -v flag is for debugging; it writes out the response headers, as well as the response contents. The -f flag can be used before each name=value pair. It tells http_post that the value is actually a filename to be read and inserted into the re- quest. It also switches the entire request to use a content-type of multi- part/form-data, instead of the usual application/x-www-form-urlencoded. AUTHOR Copyright (C) 1999,2003 by Jef Poskanzer <jef@mail.acme.com>. All rights reserved. 16 March 1999 http_post(1)
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