Is it possible to use cURL to stream upload a file using POST?

Question

Or does PHP not allow this? I have read it is possible using PUT but the server is expecting POST only.

Answer 1

Curl has already support the stream, try curl --help | grep binary and you will get:

"--data-binary DATA HTTP POST binary data (H)"

An example: curl -v -XPOST http://example:port/path --data-binary @file.tar \ -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream"