[http] Test file upload using HTTP PUT method

I've written a service using HTTP PUT method for uploading a file.

Web Browsers don't support PUT so I need a method for testing. It works great as a POST hitting it from a browser.

update: This is what worked. I tried Poster but it suffers from the same thing as using fiddler. You have to know how to build the request. curl takes care of the problem.

curl -X PUT "localhost:8080/urlstuffhere" -F "file=@filename" -b "JSESSIONID=cookievalue"

curl -X PUT -T "/path/to/file" "http://myputserver.com/puturl.tmp"

For curl, how about using the -d switch? Like: curl -X PUT "localhost:8080/urlstuffhere" -d "@filename"?

If you're using PHP you can test your PUT upload using the code below:

#Initiate cURL object
$curl = curl_init();
#Set your URL
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://local.simbiat.ru');
#Indicate, that you plan to upload a file
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, true);
#Indicate your protocol
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, CURLPROTO_HTTPS);
#Set flags for transfer
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);
#Disable header (optional)
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
#Set HTTP method to PUT
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
#Indicate the file you want to upload
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_INFILE, fopen('path_to_file', 'rb'));
#Indicate the size of the file (it does not look like this is mandatory, though)
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize('path_to_file'));
#Only use below option on TEST environment if you have a self-signed certificate!!! On production this can cause security issues
#curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
#Execute
curl_exec($curl);