Using cURL to upload POST data with files
You need to use the -F option:-F/--form <name=content> Specify HTTP multipart POST data (H)
Try this:
curl \ -F "userid=1" \ -F "filecomment=This is an image file" \ -F "image=@/home/user1/Desktop/test.jpg" \ localhost/uploader.php
Catching the user id as path variable (recommended):
curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" -F "data=@test.mp3" http://mysuperserver/media/1234/upload/Catching the user id as part of the form:
curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" -F "data=@test.mp3;userid=1234" http://mysuperserver/media/upload/or:
curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" -F "data=@test.mp3" -F "userid=1234" http://mysuperserver/media/upload/
Here is my solution, I have been reading a lot of posts and they were really helpful. Finally I wrote some code for small files, with cURL and PHP that I think its really useful.
public function postFile(){ $file_url = "test.txt"; //here is the file route, in this case is on same directory but you can set URL too like "http://examplewebsite.com/test.txt" $eol = "\r\n"; //default line-break for mime type $BOUNDARY = md5(time()); //random boundaryid, is a separator for each param on my post curl function $BODY=""; //init my curl body $BODY.= '--'.$BOUNDARY. $eol; //start param header $BODY .= 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="sometext"' . $eol . $eol; // last Content with 2 $eol, in this case is only 1 content. $BODY .= "Some Data" . $eol;//param data in this case is a simple post data and 1 $eol for the end of the data $BODY.= '--'.$BOUNDARY. $eol; // start 2nd param, $BODY.= 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="somefile"; filename="test.txt"'. $eol ; //first Content data for post file, remember you only put 1 when you are going to add more Contents, and 2 on the last, to close the Content Instance $BODY.= 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream' . $eol; //Same before row $BODY.= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64' . $eol . $eol; // we put the last Content and 2 $eol, $BODY.= chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents($file_url))) . $eol; // we write the Base64 File Content and the $eol to finish the data, $BODY.= '--'.$BOUNDARY .'--' . $eol. $eol; // we close the param and the post width "--" and 2 $eol at the end of our boundary header. $ch = curl_init(); //init curl curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 'X_PARAM_TOKEN : 71e2cb8b-42b7-4bf0-b2e8-53fbd2f578f9' //custom header for my api validation you can get it from $_SERVER["HTTP_X_PARAM_TOKEN"] variable ,"Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=".$BOUNDARY) //setting our mime type for make it work on $_FILE variable ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/1.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0'); //setting our user agent curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "api.endpoint.post"); //setting our api post url curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $BOUNDARY.'.txt'); //saving cookies just in case we want curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // call return content curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); navigate the endpoint curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); //set as post curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $BODY); // set our $BODY $response = curl_exec($ch); // start curl navigation print_r($response); //print response}With this we should be get on the "api.endpoint.post" the following vars posted. You can easily test with this script, and you should be receive this debugs on the function postFile() at the last row.
print_r($response); //print responsepublic function getPostFile(){ echo "\n\n_SERVER\n"; echo "<pre>"; print_r($_SERVER['HTTP_X_PARAM_TOKEN']); echo "/<pre>"; echo "_POST\n"; echo "<pre>"; print_r($_POST['sometext']); echo "/<pre>"; echo "_FILES\n"; echo "<pre>"; print_r($_FILEST['somefile']); echo "/<pre>";}It should work well, they may be better solutions but this works and is really helpful to understand how the Boundary and multipart/from-data mime works on PHP and cURL library.