Hello. I’m using version 1.16, and I’m trying to use curl to call the API to upload files specified in a form by the user.  So, the user submits via a POST the file they want to upload, and the php copies that file to a temporary spot on the server.  I then use curl to tell the API to upload that file, but it says

<error code="uploaddisabled" info="Uploads are not enabled…

Even though I can totally upload through Special:Upload just fine.  Here’s the curl (this is after obtaining an edit token in code that works fine as a setup for creating new articles):

            $ch = curl_init();

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookiefile.txt');

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookiefile.txt');         

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type: multipart/form-data"));

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://$server_name/w/api.php?action=upload&token=$edittoken&filename=$filename&url=http://$server_name/upload_tmp/$filename");

I’m also confused as to how to call it using the ‘file’ option instead, as the manual says if takes ‘file contents’, and the examples has ‘file=file_contents_here’.  When I try that method with the curl

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://$server_name/w/api.php?action=upload&token=$edittoken&filename=$filename&file=file_contents_here");

then I get the error:

<error code="missingparam" info="One of the parameters sessionkey, file, url is required"

So, what’s ‘file contents’ supposed to contain?  Thanks for the help.

Will Preston

Network Administrator

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