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-Updated: August 23, 2001 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.shtml)
+Updated: October 23, 2001 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.shtml)
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3.9 How do I use curl in PHP, Perl, Tcl, Ruby or Java?
3.10 What about SOAP, WebDAV, XML-RPC or similar protocols over HTTP?
3.11 How do I POST with a different Content-Type?
+ 3.12 Why do FTP specific features over HTTP proxy fails?
4. Running Problems
4.1 Problems connecting to SSL servers.
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curl -d "datatopost" -H "Content-Type: text/xml" [URL]
+ 3.12 Why do FTP specific features over HTTP proxy fails?
+
+ Because when you use a HTTP proxy, the protocol spoken on the network will
+ be HTTP, even if you specify a FTP URL. This effectively means that you
+ normally can't use FTP specific features such as ftp upload and ftp quote
+ etc.
+
+ There is one exception to this rule, and that is if you can "tunnel through"
+ the given HTTP proxy. Proxy tunneling is enabled with a special option (-P)
+ and is generally not available as proxy admins usuable disable tunneling to
+ other ports than 443 (which is used for HTTPS access through proxies).
+
4. Running Problems
4.1. Problems connecting to SSL servers.