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    copied!<p>I am trying to send an XML file via POST to a form on a remote server. I am generating the XML data on the fly, and storing it as a string in a variable called $XmlData. This is a string starting with my opening tag (see example below)...so no "headers" are in this string. I could easily write it to the server in a temp directory as an XML file...but ideally i want to just post this as if it were a file, but without the added step of creating the file (which i would then have to delete afterwords)... Below is the code that i THINK should allow me to upload my XML file if i actually created it first...</p> <pre><code> $url = 'http://www.mydomain.com/path/to/form/process.php'; $ch = curl_init($url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;)"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, _VIRUS_SCAN_URL); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); // same as &lt;input type="file" name="xmlfileresource"&gt; $post = array( "xmlfileresource"=&gt;"@/path/to/myfile.xml", "action"=&gt;"incomingXml", "user"=&gt;"JohnSmith", ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post); $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); </code></pre> <p>My question is this: How can I stream/blob/whatever the content of my $XmlData string into this cURL execution such that the remote server thinks it was just a normal file being POSTed?</p> <p>Not really relevant, but in case it helps...my $XmlData string might look something like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;clientversion&gt; &lt;component&gt; &lt;type&gt;module&lt;/type&gt; &lt;name&gt;resources&lt;/name&gt; &lt;version&gt;2.7.3&lt;/version&gt; &lt;date&gt;2012-09-01 02:18:33&lt;/date&gt; &lt;/component&gt; &lt;component&gt; &lt;type&gt;module&lt;/type&gt; &lt;name&gt;staff&lt;/name&gt; &lt;version&gt;3.1&lt;/version&gt; &lt;date&gt;2011-04-01 07:12:48&lt;/date&gt; &lt;/component&gt; &lt;/clientversion&gt; </code></pre>
 

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