I've written a service using HTTP PUT method for uploading a file.
Web Browsers don't support PUT so I need a method for testing. It works great as a POST hitting it from a browser.
update: This is what worked. I tried Poster but it suffers from the same thing as using fiddler. You have to know how to build the request. curl takes care of the problem.
curl -X PUT "localhost:8080/urlstuffhere" -F "file=@filename" -b "JSESSIONID=cookievalue"
In my opinion the best tool for such testing is curl. Its --upload-file option uploads a file by PUT, which is exactly what you want (and it can do much more, like modifying HTTP headers, in case you need it):
curl http://myservice --upload-file file.txt
--data option, originally used by this answer, is inappropriate for file uploads since it strips out newline characters and thus may modify the file. I have replaced it with --upload-file instead.
curl -X PUT -T "/path/to/file" "http://myputserver.com/puturl.tmp"
-X PUT is redundant when using -T (which is short for --upload-file). This is basically the same as the accepted answer (which is a few years older).If you're using PHP you can test your PUT upload using the code below:
#Initiate cURL object
$curl = curl_init();
#Set your URL
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://local.simbiat.ru');
#Indicate, that you plan to upload a file
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, true);
#Indicate your protocol
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, CURLPROTO_HTTPS);
#Set flags for transfer
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);
#Disable header (optional)
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
#Set HTTP method to PUT
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
#Indicate the file you want to upload
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_INFILE, fopen('path_to_file', 'rb'));
#Indicate the size of the file (it does not look like this is mandatory, though)
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize('path_to_file'));
#Only use below option on TEST environment if you have a self-signed certificate!!! On production this can cause security issues
#curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
#Execute
curl_exec($curl);
