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curl -X POST \
     --data-binary '@File01.tar.gz' \
     http://website.intra.prova.it/gore-orgac/PINGU/TEST/lots/Test_017/content/files/File02.tar.gz

And I receive this error:

curl: (56) Failure when receiving data from the peer

But if I do this CURL:

curl -X POST \
     --data-binary '@File01.tar.gz' \
     http://website.intra.prova.it/gore-orgac/PINGU/TEST/lots/Test_017/content/files/File02

Its works well.

Why is that?

  • Passing data to be uploaded in URL itself instead of POST request
  • Probably Proxy blocking the request to the server.
  • In some cases, server do not support particular request, like some servers support PUT/POST any one of them.
  • When I received this error last time, it was proxy blocking the request to the server.

    But in your case, in non working case:

    curl -X POST \
         --data-binary '@File01.tar.gz' \
         http://website.intra.prova.it/gore-orgac/PINGU/TEST/lots/Test_017/content/files/File02.tar.gz
    

    you have appended the file to be POST in URL itself, which is the location actually not available on server,

    These can be reason not sure, it happened to me long back while playing with cURL command-line.

    Use curl -v to see more information on what's happening. You can also use curl --trace-ascii <filename>for a file dump of all incoming and outgoing information. See the docs for more info: curl.se/docs/manpage.html – Jesuisme Aug 3, 2022 at 16:50

    This happened to me because my POST data was too big. I was doing:

    curl -X POST localhost:9200/_bulk --data-binary @too-big.file
    

    To resolve the issue, i split the file into 2 parts with:

    split -l 150000 too-big.file
    

    Then ran 2 POSTS:

    curl -X POST localhost:9200/_bulk --data-binary @xaa
    curl -X POST localhost:9200/_bulk --data-binary @xab
    

    Mine was related to the Parsoid Service / VisualEditor for the MediaWiki environment

    sudo service parsoid restart

    Fixed it in my case

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