Latest curl fails with error 55 (Failed sending HTTP request) with specific URL

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2016-02-08 06:57, Andrew Clark wrote:
> I've been running a simple script that uses curl to generate a token
> from a web service. Up until the last release (7.47.0-2), this had
> been working fine. Now, however, I'm consistently getting
>
> curl: (55) Failed sending HTTP request
>
> The script I have boils down to this curl request:
>
> $ curl --header "$header"
> https://implementation.concursolutions.com/net2/oauth2/accesstoken.ashx
>
> where $header contains
>
> $ echo "$header"
> Authorization: Basic Sm9oblNtaXRoQGRhdGFpbnRlbnNpdHlsbGMuY29tOldlbGNvbWUxCg==
> X-ConsumerKey: oEcc7vFraW66kVlr3zWb6i
>
> (these are values for a dummy account with this provider set up to
> allow access to their token service)

A separate --header flag should be used for each header that you wish to 
set.  IOW:

curl --header "Authorization: Basic $AUTH" --header "X-ConsumerKey: 
$KEY" $URL

-- 
Yaakov

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple