Character encoding problem in windows when using --data-binary and special characters like 'Ñ'

Hi.
I'm Ricardo Vila and i'm new to this mailing list.

Briefly: i'm facing a problem using command line curl in windows
platforms to send data stored in properties files. I hope somebody can
point me a solution.

Te complete situation is as follows. At Teimas, we have one app wich
accepts REST requests. This requests has a lot of fields so our
clients store the parameters in a properties file and then send it
with curl and the --data-binary option. Something like this (windows
example):

curl.exe -i -u :'some_token' -H "Accept: application/x-yaml" -H
"Content-type: text/plain" http://ourserver.com/api/nt/ --data-binary
@file.properties -X POST

This works fine running curl form linux and windows. But in windows
appears one problem when in the properties file, appears something
like this:

    documento.productor.centro.nombre=XESTION A CORUÑA, S.A.

The Ñ character is encoded (in windows clients) in a way that our
server cannot handle it and the rest of the line is trunked. So the
value on our server for this example is 'XESTION A CORU'

We have tried many things like:

  - Use --data-urlencode option (with and without changing content-type)

Reading url request from a file ?

Hi,

I would like to use curl but reading headers which I send from a file
such http://pastebin.com/TcP0UVbd

I'm thiniking in shell scripting (perl, awk ..), but maybe there is
another easy method to do it

I would like something like curl --read-request-from-file myfile

I didn't find any like it in internet, but probabbly someone though
in that before

Do you have any idea or  I need to write an bash function which
convert headers to -H curl switch , and use $() bash operator (and add
data post which is included in the file too)?

Thanks !
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Re: Character encoding problem in windows when using --data-binary and special characters like 'Ñ'

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 12:54:58PM +0100, Ricardo Vila wrote:
> curl.exe -i -u :'some_token' -H "Accept: application/x-yaml" -H
> "Content-type: text/plain" http://ourserver.com/api/nt/ --data-binary
> @file.properties -X POST
>
> This works fine running curl form linux and windows. But in windows
> appears one problem when in the properties file, appears something
> like this:
> 
>     documento.productor.centro.nombre=XESTION A CORUÑA, S.A.
> 
> The Ñ character is encoded (in windows clients) in a way that our
> server cannot handle it and the rest of the line is trunked. So the
> value on our server for this example is 'XESTION A CORU'
> 
> We have tried many things like:
> 
>   - Use --data-urlencode option (with and without changing content-type)
>   - Use --data option
>   - Use --data-urlencode with -crlf
>   - May combination of the above options
> 
> I know that de manual page says ' The contents of the file must
> already be URL-encoded.' but i wonder if i can let curl command manage
> this.
> ¿I'm missing something? ¿Any idea?

curl is undoubtedly sending the file to the remote server exactly as
requested. If so, then the problem won't be solved by adding a curl option
but rather by converting the file into the format that the server

Re: Reading url request from a file ?

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Javier Barroso <javibarroso <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to use curl but reading headers which I send from a file
> such http://pastebin.com/TcP0UVbd
>
> I'm thiniking in shell scripting (perl, awk ..), but maybe there is
> another easy method to do it
>
> I would like something like curl --read-request-from-file myfile
>
> I didn't find any like it in internet, but probabbly someone though
> in that before
>
> Do you have any idea or  I need to write an bash function which
> convert headers to -H curl switch , and use $() bash operator (and add
> data post which is included in the file too)?
Well, finally I did a perl script,sharing here:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my %headers;
open my $tmpfile, ">tmpfile";
while (<>)
{
	if (1 .. /^$/)
	{
		chomp;
		next if (/^$/);

-f regression

FYI,

Bug report #3481223 properly identified a regression when -f is used with a 
[]-range in a URL. It worked in 7.22 and the commit that broke the old 
behavior is fa775b56de777.

I've come up with a test case for this, test1328 is attached.

I've not yet produced a proper fix, as my first naive approach turned out to 
fix this problem but break some existing tests.

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<testcase>
<info>
<keywords>
HTTP
HTTP GET
-f
</keywords>
</info>

<reply>
<data>
HTTP/1.1 404 OK
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2010 14:49:00 GMT
Content-Length: 6
Funny-head: yesyes

Re: -f regression

On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> I've not yet produced a proper fix, as my first naive approach turned out to 
> fix this problem but break some existing tests.

Ah, I figured out a fairly clean fix and it has now been committed.

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7.24.0 curl windows exe download not available

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Re: 7.24.0 curl windows exe download not available

On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, David Bonham wrote:

> http://www.gknw.net/mirror/curl/win32/curl-7.24.0-ssl-sspi-zlib-static-bin-w32.zipis 
> not available (at least for me).  I've tried for the last couple days.
>
> Is there a mirror for this?

I'm not aware of any mirror for that, no. I know however that the machine 
running that site broke down and that Guenter (the admin of the site) is 
working on getting it back up again.

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undefined reference to `curl_global_init'

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Re: undefined reference to `curl_global_init'

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 02:04:43AM +0800, Hello! hello wrote:
> I encounter a problem while compile attached sourcecode which require libcurl
> 
> From following log generated by ld, libcurl.so was loaded, definition of
> 'curl_global_init' was also there,
> but the compiler still complain without any success
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 
> Package for libcurl:
> libcurl4-openssl-dev
> 
> Compile Command:
> gcc -L/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu -lcurl -Wl,-M,-t,-y,curl_global_init
> couch_example1.c

The reference to -lcurl must come after the file the references it. The
order of appearance on the command-line is important.

>>> Dan
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