You’re looking for the --data-binary
argument:
curl -i -X POST host:port/post-file \
-H "Content-Type: text/xml" \
--data-binary "@path/to/file"
In the example above, -i
prints out all the headers so that you can see what’s going on, and -X POST
makes it explicit that this is a post. Both of these can be safely omitted without changing the behaviour on the wire. The path to the file needs to be preceded by an @
symbol, so curl
knows to read from a file.