I’m trying to understand the ML support for handling HTTP requests and I’m
trying to use CURL to test things just to learn. I’m getting an odd behavior
and I haven’t been able to figure out what I’m doing wrong from either the curl
info I can find or from the relevant ML docs.
Here’s my module:
xquery version "1.0-ml";
let $type := xdmp:get-request-header('Content-Type')
let $field-names := xdmp:get-request-field-names()
return
<response>
<message>This is test remote access</message>
<content-type>{$type}</content-type>
<fields>{
for $name in $field-names
return <field-name>{$name}</field-name>
}</fields>
<request-body>{
for $name in $field-names
return xdmp:get-request-field($name)}
</request-body>
</response>
I’m trying to use POST to send the data in a file to this module using the
–data-binary parameter:
curl -X POST --data-binary "file=@testfile.txt" --user ekimber:ekimber
http://anglia.corp.mitchellrepair.com:11984/test-remote-access.xqy
However, the response I get is:
<response><message>This is test remote
access</message><content-type>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</content-type><fields><field-name>file</field-name></fields><request-body>@testfile.txt</request-body></response>
Note that the field value is the string “@testfile.txt”, not the content of the
file. This is the form of call that appears to be the correct way to associate
a field name with the data from a file.
If I leave off “file=” then the contents of testfile.txt become the field name:
curl -X POST --data-binary "@testfile.txt" --user ekimber:ekimber
http://anglia.corp.mitchellrepair.com:11984/test-remote-access.xqy
<response><message>This is test remote
access</message><content-type>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</content-type><fields><field-name>This
is the test
File. More text.
</field-name></fields><request-body/></response>
Which also seems wrong.
I must be doing something wrong, either on the CURL side or on the ML side but
I can’t figure out what it is. All the examples I could find in the ML docs use
direct form submission rather than CURL.
Thanks,
Eliot
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Eliot Kimber
http://contrext.com
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