Re: using netcat (nc) to POST data to a web server ...

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- --On Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:08:33 -0600 Dan Nelson
<dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In the last episode (Nov 30), Marc G. Fournier said:
using netcat (nc) to POST data to a web server ...

Does anyone have an example of this? I've searched google, and am
finding nothing other then that it can be done ...

I'd recommend using curl. It has options for sending HTTP POST data in
a couple of different formats. With nc, you'll have to fabricate the
entire request and pipe it in. Easy enough to determine the format by
tcpdumping a browser session, but curl has done the work and lets you
do error checking on the response.

Availability, mostly :( nc seems to be part of the base OS, while curl is an a
port ... I'm trying to find a way to use POST to send the bsdstats data out,
insted of GET ...

Thanks though ...

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Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
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