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

[Dan Nelson]

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.

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	Dan Nelson
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