should I be using curl, if so how ?

[IAMTubby]

Hello,
I have to POST some data. I tried opening the URL in a browser by running the following command. Though it works, I would like a better method. Please find the link I'm using to POST data below.

chromium-browser http://54.213.213.32:8080/gprmc/Data?acct=test01&dev=test01&gprmc=$GPRMC,192417,A,2619.001183,N,05013.21068,E, 0000,000.0,170214,,*7

After some googling, I found out about curl. But I'm not sure how to use it to POST data. I tried the following, but didn't work.

curl --data "acct=test01&dev=test01&gprmc=$GPRMC,192417,A,2619.001183,N,05013.21068,E, 0000,000.0,170214,,*7" http://54.213.213.32:8080/gprmc/Data?

Please tell me how I can POST this data.

Thanks.

[spjackson]

Hello,
I have to POST some data. I tried opening the URL in a browser by running the following command. Though it works, I would like a better method. Please find the link I'm using to POST data below.

First, check that you do need to POST, because the following is a GET. (You can see this from your access log).



chromium-browser http://54.213.213.32:8080/gprmc/Data?acct=test01&dev=test01&gprmc=$GPRMC,192417,A,2619.001183,N,05013.21068,E, 0000,000.0,170214,,*7

What follows the /Data? is the query string, not POST data. If the above works, then all you need is


curl 'http://54.213.213.32:8080/gprmc/Data?acct=test01&dev=test01&gprmc=$GPRMC,192417,A,2619.001183,N,05013.21068,E, 0000,000.0,170214,,*7'

[IAMTubby]

What follows the /Data? is the query string, not POST data. If the above works, then all you need is


curl 'http://54.213.213.32:8080/gprmc/Data?acct=test01&dev=test01&gprmc=$GPRMC,192417,A,2619.001183,N,05013.21068,E, 0000,000.0,170214,,*7'

Thank you spjackson, that worked. But I have a few questions; before I ask you, let me read up on it and get back to you in a few hours.