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Old 06-24-2015
HTTP coding
My company has an in house instant messaging system (like WhatsApp) where users can communicate with each other. I currently have code to email me certain items from my Sparc machine running SunOS 5.10. I want what I am emailing myself to now instant message me. The team that created the messenger has provided a blanket code to get this working. I know shell but not much as far as http stuff is concerned. The code they provided has a "curl" command in it. Apparently my OS doesn't support "curl". Can anybody provide an "curl" equivalent for my OS? Here is the code and notes that the messenger creators sent:

Code:
FROM_USERID=$1
FROM_PASSWORD=$2
TO=$3
MSG=$4
BOT_SERVICE="http://bots.q.mycompany.com:8011/QBotService/BotTalk"

MESSAGE="xmlMessage=<message \
type=\"contact.send.message\" \
id=\"$FROM_USERID\" \
password=\"$FROM_PASSWORD\" \
contactId=\"$TO\"> \
<statement from=\"$FROM_USERID\" \
to=\"$TO\" \
text=\"$MSG\"/></message>"

## echo $MESSAGE - uncomment this if debugging, to see the string sent to the Bot Service

## (1) use this command to suppress display of the response
curl -s -d "${MESSAGE// /%20}" $BOT_SERVICE   > /dev/null   

## (2) use this command to display the response from the Bot Service - helpful for debugging
## curl -s -d "${MESSAGE// /%20}" $BOT_SERVICE


Here are the notes:

Just send this via HTTP or HTTPS to: http://bots.q.mycompany.com:8011/QBotService/BotTalk
It's best to use HTTPS and POST, but you can also send it via HTTP GET with ?xmlMessage=<xml here...>
# 2  
Old 06-24-2015
There's more than curlto POST messages, try lynx or - although not designed therefor - wget, if available on your system.
# 3  
Old 06-24-2015
So I swapped 'curl' with 'wget' and get the following error. Ironically I get the same error with the 'curl' version:

Code:
"${MESSAGE// /%20}": bad substitution

# 4  
Old 06-24-2015
That's a shell error msg, not curl nor wget. What shell are you using?

And, wget does have other options that curl has. Read man wget on how to POST messages.
# 5  
Old 06-24-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by shorty
Apparently my OS doesn't support "curl".
Apparently there is: cURL - Download

also see https://www.opencsw.org/package/curl/

I hope this helps.

bakunin
# 6  
Old 06-24-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
That's a shell error msg, not curl nor wget. What shell are you using?

And, wget does have other options that curl has. Read man wget on how to POST messages.
I'm using KornShell.
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