posting xml or form data via curl

[cyburdine]

I am trying to pass data from a form and then post that data to a server in the form of a variable (xml)

the problem is that curl wants to parse the variable xml which contains = so it thinks that I actually have more than one post field

anyone know a way around this or know of a better way of posting xml data to web servers
the server IS expecting one fariable xml.

here is what I have written:
$data = "<xml><steve version='1.0' partner_name='steve bushcemi'>his name</steve></xml>

$ch = curl_init('http://hostname/script.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "xml=$data");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$returnDATA = curl_exec($ch);
print $returnDATA;

thanks...

justin

[cyburdine]

well, i can't believe that I didn't see this.

I needed to rawurlencode my data before sending it.

the solution is as follows:

$myxml = "<xml><steve version='1.0' partner_name='steve bushcemi'>his name</steve></xml>";
$data = rawurlencode($myxml);

hope that helps.