This is coming up because you are trying to pass the entirety of the base64’d content on the command line. curl has the ability to load in data to POST from a file, which I’d recommend doing. More information can be found in the man page, but the basic format is this: curl -X POST … Read more
You could try using the –create-dirs argument which was added in curl 7.10.3: Here is an example that will create the directory hierarchy, (if it doesn’t already exist), and will name the subdirectory you require renamed with the output of the datecommand: curl -o /db-bkups/$(date +”%b-%d-%Y”)/timestamp-db.dump –create-dirs http://www.w3schools.com/xml/simple.xml The result is a file stored in … Read more
SSE is a text-based protocol, and curl is a great way to troubleshoot exactly what your connection is sending. The command is this simple: curl -N http://127.0.0.1/path/to/clock.php (The -N stops any buffering, so data is shown as it is received.) And it outputs this: data:2015-07-07 06:19:27 data:2015-07-07 06:19:28 data:2015-07-07 06:19:29 data:2015-07-07 06:19:30 data:2015-07-07 06:19:31 data:2015-07-07 … Read more
This is a curl bug (a strange one), where curl fails to fall back to IPv4 if there’s an IPv6 entry in /etc/hosts that doesn’t respond. You can force it to use IPv4 via the -4 option.
If anyone else stumbles onto this page from google like I did: use putty (putty.exe) to sign into your server and install curl using this command : sudo apt-get install php5-curl Make sure curl is enabled in the php.ini file. For me it’s in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini, if you can’t find it, this line might be in … Read more
If you are using Windows Authentication, you need to use NTLM: curl –ntlm –user username:password http://example.com
If updating cURL doesn’t fix it, updating NSS should do the trick.
My tool websocat is specifically designed for this. websocat ws://your_server/url You can connect and exchange data with your server. By default each line becomes a WebSocket text message and vice versa. On Linux it is more comfortable to play with it using readline: rlwrap websocat ws://your_server/url. It is not the only CLI websocket client. There … Read more