Linux command line tool for uploading files over HTTP as multipart/form-data?

Question

I can see that wget has a --post-file option, but the manpage says "Wget does not currently support multipart/form-data for transmitting POST data; only application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Only one of ‘--post-data’ and ‘--post-file’ should be specified."

Is there a similar way for uploading files in multipart/form-data?

Answer 1

Use curl:

curl -F "file=@localfile;filename=nameinpost" url.com

Answer 2

problem with curl is that it is slow. it is achievable using a perl or python script + PHP I found a guide at http://www.farneville.com check it there