post.c

/* 

mostly stolen from:
http://github.com/bagder/curl/blob/master/docs/examples/http-post.c

to compile:
gcc -lcurl post.c -o post

*/

#include <curl/curl.h>

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl;
  CURLcode res;

  struct curl_slist *headerlist=NULL;

  char *url;
  char *data;

  url = "http://localhost:5984/joe";
  data = "{\"test\":\"test\"}";

  curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, data);
    
    headerlist = curl_slist_append(headerlist, "Content-Type: application/json");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headerlist);    
 
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);

    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
  return 0;
}