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

Andrew Clark lark047@gmail.com
Tue Feb 9 14:16:00 GMT 2016


On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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> Yaakov
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Thanks! Passing two header flags did the trick.

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