How to use system in Cocoa to invoke curl

Question

Hello,

I was wondering the best way to upload file to a web server in cocoa. I cant seem to get my curl code to work even though it works when run from terminal.

curl code:

system(@"curl -T /file.txt http://webserevertouploadto.com")

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

Try using NSTask instead of system() to execute curl. If you're looking for a native Cocoa solution for uploading files via FTP, take a look at ConnectionKit.

Answer 2

One negative of using curl is that it won't respect the user's proxy settings.

I prefer to use the NSURLConnection API.

Check this out: http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?HTTPFileUploadSample