Re: [Bug-wget] post-data works but post-file does not?

[Estanislao Gonzalez]

 Hi,

try reading the file content directly at the shell. For Linux, something 
like:

wget --post-data="$(cat post_file.txt)"

If this doesn't work, the problem is in the file.

You can even try an:

echo "wget --post-data=$(cat post_file.txt)"

And see if this is exactly the command you are issuing (maybe even copy 
and paste it once more). If all this works, the bug is almost sure in wget.

Hope this helps,
Estani

On 09/21/2010 11:43 PM, Charles Kozierok wrote:
> Identical, I just copy/pasted from the file to the command line.
>
> Boggle.
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Keisial<address@hidden>  wrote:
> >   Charles Kozierok wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Hoping someone can help me out with this.. I just found a weird case
> > > (after banging my head against a wall for a while) where an attempt to
> > > do a wget request with a --post-file= directive results in an internal
> > > server error, but the identical request with the same (very long) POST
> > > string in the command like as --post-data works.
> > >
> > > This is a problem for other strings that are too long to put in the
> > > command line.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Charles
> > Maybe the file version contains something more?
> > A trailing new line, a leading BOM, different encoding...


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