Send request to curl with post data sourced from a file

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I need to make a POST request via Curl from the command line  Data for this request is located in a file  I know that via PUT this could be done with the --upload-file option   curl host port post-file -H  Content-Type  text xml  --data  contents of file

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If you are using  form data to upload file in which a parameter name must be specified   you can use   curl  -X POST  -i  -F  parametername  filename  -F  additional parm param2  host port xxx

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You re looking for the --data-binary argument   curl -i -X POST host port post-file     -H  Content-Type  text xml      --data-binary   path to file    In the example above  -i prints out all the headers so that you can see what s going on  and -X POST makes it explicit that this is a post   Both of these can be safely omitted without changing the behaviour on the wire   The path to the file needs to be preceded by an   symbol  so curl knows to read from a file

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Most of answers are perfect here  but when I landed here for my particular problem  I have to upload binary file  XLSX spread sheet  using POST method  I see one thing missing  i e  usually its not just file you load  you may have more form data elements  like comment to file or tags to file etc as was my case  Hence  I would like to add it here as it was my use case  so that it could help others    curl -POST -F comment mycomment -F file type XLSX -F file data   your path to file XLSX http   yourhost example com api example url

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I had to use a HTTP connection  because on HTTPS there is default file size limit   https   techcommunity microsoft com t5 IIS-Support-Blog Solution-for-Request-Entity-Too-Large-error ba-p 501134      curl -i -X  POST  -F  file   home testeincremental xlsx   http   example com upload aspx user example amp password example123 amp type XLSX

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I need to make a POST request via Curl from the command line  Data for this request is located in a file      All you need to do is have the --data argument start with a     curl -H  Content-Type  text xml  --data   path of file  host port post-file-path   For example  if you have the data in a file called stuff xml then you would do something like   curl -H  Content-Type  text xml  --data   stuff xml  host port post-file-path   The stuff xml filename can be replaced with a relative or full path to the file       xml stuff xml    var tmp stuff xml

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