[Freeswitch-users] mod-curl POST

[JP]

Thanks Rupa. I guess I need to re-read your email to understand better. For
now I have asked the vendor controlling the end point to switch to GET. I
will try out what you suggested when I get some free cycles and update this
thread.

Regards,
JP

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Rupa Schomaker <rupa at rupa.com> wrote:

> Umm.. I just explained how to do it.  The only piece missing is the
> setting of the content-type header, but if that isn't going to be a problem
> you odn't have to do anything special.
>
> Just remember to urlencode the (full) contents of the XML.
>
> And try it out.  Use wireshark to see what is sent over the wire to the
> server.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:26 AM, JP <jaykris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes what I am looking for is to POST xml data in the body and not as
>> name/value pairs. Is this possible?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -JP
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Rupa Schomaker <rupa at rupa.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <
>>> cal.leeming at simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The docs says this;
>>>>
>>>> curl url [headers|json] [get|head|post [url_encode_data]]
>>>>
>>>
>>> The [headers|json] is all about the response format.  Just to make sure
>>> that is clear.
>>>
>>> get/head/post should be self-evident
>>>
>>> url_encode_data is supposed to be the url encoded version of what you
>>> want to send to the server.  It is encoded on purpose (so that we don't
>>> have to worry about embedded spaces or other special chars).
>>>
>>> So, you really just need to do:
>>>
>>> curl http://example.com/ post encodedxmlhere
>>>
>>>
>>>> So, I assume you'd just do.
>>>>
>>>> curl http://example.com/ post xml=encodedxmlhere
>>>>
>>>>
>>> This will result in www-url-encoded with key/value pair with xml as key
>>> and the encoded xml as the value.  This may be what the OP wants, but I
>>> think what he wants is just XML.
>>>
>>>
>>> Note that the content-type will still be application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>>> which is "wrong".  I've written xml service endpoints that behave
>>> differently based on the content-type.  Depending on how your service is
>>> written this may be ok or not.  There is an open ticket to address the
>>> content-type issue.
>>>
>>> http://jira.freeswitch.org/browse/FS-4714
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Taken from here;
>>>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_curl
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps, apologies if I misunderstood the question
>>>>
>>>> Cal
>>>>
>>>>
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