postit.c was added as a HTML form file upload example

2 files changed, 69 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/examples/Makefile.am b/docs/examples/Makefile.am
index a8cd193ad..f620440c7 100644
--- a/docs/examples/Makefile.am
+++ b/docs/examples/Makefile.am
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign no-dependencies
 
 EXTRA_DIST = 
-	README curlgtk.c sepheaders.c simple.c
+	README curlgtk.c sepheaders.c simple.c postit.c
 
 all:
 	@echo "done"
diff --git a/docs/examples/postit.c b/docs/examples/postit.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..710a14967
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/examples/postit.c
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/*****************************************************************************
+ *                                  _   _ ____  _     
+ *  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |    
+ *                             / __| | | | |_) | |    
+ *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___ 
+ *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+ *
+ * $Id$
+ *
+ * Example code that uploads a file name 'foo' to a remote script that accepts
+ * "HTML form based" (as described in RFC1738) uploads using HTTP POST.
+ *
+ * The imaginary form we'll fill in looks like:
+ *
+ * <form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="examplepost.cgi">
+ * Enter file: <input type="file" name="sendfile" size="40">
+ * Enter file name: <input type="text" name="filename" size="30">
+ * <input type="submit" value="send" name="submit">
+ * </form>
+ *
+ * This exact source code has not been verified to work.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+#include <curl/types.h>
+#include <curl/easy.h>
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+  CURL *curl;
+  CURLcode res;
+
+  struct HttpPost *formpost=NULL;
+  struct HttpPost *lastptr=NULL;
+
+  /* Fill in the file upload field */
+  curl_formparse("sendfile=@foo",
+                 &formpost,
+                 &lastptr);
+
+  /* Fill in the filename field */
+  curl_formparse("filename=foo",
+                 &formpost,
+                 &lastptr);
+  
+
+  /* Fill in the submit field too, even if this is rarely needed */
+  curl_formparse("submit=send",
+                 &formpost,
+                 &lastptr);
+
+  curl = curl_easy_init();
+  if(curl) {
+    /* what URL that receives this POST */
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://curl.haxx.se/examplepost.cgi");
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPPOST, formpost);
+    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+
+    /* always cleanup */
+    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+
+    /* then cleanup the formpost chain */
+    curl_formfree(formpost);
+  }
+  return 0;
+}