Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:03:20 -0400 From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using netcat (nc) to POST data to a web server ... Message-ID: <751465373B383F16D9729800@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20061130160833.GF69797@dan.emsphone.com> References: <F1F770AAB23B016F425F2A57@ganymede.hub.org> <20061130160833.GF69797@dan.emsphone.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:08:33 -0600 Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> 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 ... - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFbzkI4QvfyHIvDvMRAiP4AKDLW9gP4gxQ4HwLoho0l2zEpo+AtgCdGtNP oYCDi83TRONyHfS8NmCT6mo= =StiC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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