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In the middle of writing an application that heavily relies on cURL I came across an error. The error cURL returns is 

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Error</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
An error occurred while processing your request.<p>
Reference&#32;&#35;179&#46;671d1f45&#46;1280621802&#46;1a9c0add
</BODY></HTML>

The command I use is 

curl -T /test.txt http://idisk.me.com/myAccount/Public/myFolder/

MyAccount and MyFolder I replace with the correct info. Could it be that my host (Apple) is now denying curl uploads for some reason?

Thanks for any help this is really puzzling

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Try using a different user-agent:

curl -A 'other user agent' -T /test.txt http://idisk.me.com/myAccount/Public/myFolder/
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Sorry to ask but I haven't heard of other user agent. Could you explain a little more? Also I still get the error... – nosedive25 Aug 1 '10 at 0:36
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See user agent. It's a string that identifies the HTTP client. Some servers block curl, which you can bypass by spoofing a different agent (e.g. IE's, Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)), – Matthew Flaschen Aug 1 '10 at 0:47
Okay thanks I'll try that again. So I would replace 'other user agent' with something like Mozilla/4.0 ? – nosedive25 Aug 1 '10 at 1:11
Or the whole string I gave. You can also find lists of common user agents to try. – Matthew Flaschen Aug 1 '10 at 1:16
Hmmm now I just get unauthorized. If I run it again I get the error I previously got. – nosedive25 Aug 1 '10 at 1:22
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