Using Expect and Cadaver to automate WebDAV uploads (w\ example script)
February 13th, 2009
... or the one about how I finally got around to learning expect.
DISCLAIMER: I still hate windows.
I spent a decent portion of today hunting around for a way to script or otherwise automate (at the command line) uploading a file to one of $wageslavery’s external vendors. After diddling with curl -T only to find that it only works if the destination file doesn’t exist, I finally bit the bullet and installed Cygwin. Cygwin provides a win32 version of expect, the command line automation tool and cadaver, the command line WebDAV utility, basically smbclient for WebDAV. Working example code after the break!
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