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Use curl to upload a file in a multipart/form-data request, with custom content-type for the file (not the request)
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| filename='yourfilename' | |
| filetype='text/csv' | |
| token='my oauth token' | |
| url='http://localhost/upload' | |
| curl "$url" \ | |
| --form "data=@$filename;type=$filetype" \ | |
| --form "name=somename" \ | |
| -H "Authorization: Bearer $token" | |
Ah! This was a missing piece for firmware upload for old d-link cameras -
--form DownloadFile=@"$fwpath"';type=application/octet-stream'
(along with a bunch of other fields) the ;type= actually made a difference. Thanks.
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thanks, that saved me quite the headache!