I want to do an HTTP POST
of the contents (as a string) of a local file located at path/to/my-file.txt
to a URL endpoint at http://example.com/
.
For example, I might want to do the following:
- Extract the contents of the file
my-file.txt
as a string. - URL encode the string.
- Store the encoded string as a variable named
foo
.
Then do something like this:
curl -d "data=foo" http://example.com/
(I don't actually need the foo
variable. It's just a convenient way to describe my question.)
What are the commands I would need to execute this? Do I need to write a shell script? If so, how might it look?