使用cURL POST到基本表单

Question

I thought this would be simple but I can't figure it out. I have a form with this structure:

<form name="input" action="DOTHINGS" method="POST">

<textarea rows="10" cols="30" name="rules"></textarea>

<textarea rows="10" cols="30" name="facts"></textarea>

<br><input type="submit" value="Submit">

So I want to post to the rules and facts text areas and submit. I have tried the following:

curl -F "rules=@/directory/file.txt" -F "facts=@/directory/file.txt" http://localhost:1112/
curl -X POST -d "rules=junktext" http://localhost:1112/
curl --data "rules=junkdata&facts=junkdata" http://localhost:1112/

No matter what I try I get The requested resource could not be found as a response.

I first thought my localhost:1112 was not accessible so I tried variations of that and did a basic curl localhost:1112 which returned the content of the site so it seems it's able to access that URL. However I just can't get anything to POST. Is there something wrong with my syntax or with the form itself?

Answer 1

Since my comment was the answer:

The action attribute of an HTML form usually names a (relative) URL. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-FORM

In this case, you need to curl the URL of the form handler:

curl -d "..." http://localhost:1112/DOTHINGS