sending a POST (with a file) using curl

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Hi again, I posted a msg earlier regarding the same problem but this time I'm going to try CURL instead of fsockopen (giving up for now).

 

Ok, so I'm trying to POST some data including a file (as if you are sending a multi-part html form) using curl. Here is what I'm trying to run:

 

$fileToSend = join("", file($file)); // $file is name of file and it resides in same dir as this script
$postfields = array(
         'clip.category' => $someCatId,
         'clip.tags' => $someTag,
         'clip.title' => $title,
         'clip.description' => $desc,
         'clip.language' => 'en',
         'clip.file' => "@$fileToSend");

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $res);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);// allow redirects
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "$postfields");
// execute curl command
$result = curl_exec($ch);

print '<pre>';
print_r($result);
exit;

 

My $result is empty, I get a blank page.

 

1) Do you see anything wrong with my code?

2) I do not have access to the "receving" end of this. How ould you diagnose problems without that kind of access.

 

Thanks again for your help

CA