stuck on a postcard / postful / curl problem

FIXED, see the bottom.  12/31

rather than give up in total frustration, here's what I am trying to implement, using "curl" to drive the system.  This is from the "postful" API docs.

1. Upload the document.

To uploading a document, submit a POST to:

http://www.postful.com/service/upload

Be sure to include the Content-Type and Content-Length headers and the document itself as the body of the request.

POST /upload HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Length: 301456

... file content here ...

If the upload is successful, you will receive a response like the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<upload>
 <id>290797321.waltershandy.2</id>
</upload>

What is critical in this response is the id assigned by the server to your document, in this example 290797321.waltershandy.2. You will use that id to reference the document in the next step.

I think it should work with

curl -v --user edward.vielmeti@gmail.com:t0ps3kr3t  --data-binary "upload=@m-28-shield.png" http://postful.com/service/upload

but, it doesn't.  ideas?  mac os if it matters, the

% curl --version
curl 7.16.3 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0) libcurl/7.16.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap http file https ftps
Features: GSS-Negotiate IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz 

update: typo fixed

update2: working now!  command line is

curl -k -v --user edward.vielmetti@gmail.com:s4x4s54  --data-binary "@m-28-shield.png" https://postful.com/service/upload

note three things: "-k" option; https, not http:; spell the user name right (duh).

next task: get the address side formatted right.

Comments

[Bob Dively]

Don't know curl very well, but does it automatically create the Authorization header that postful wants?

http://www.postful.com/developer/guide#authorization