From 9456bd7e4d110dcecc0eaf156aae023bd1928246 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Anderson <davea@ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2023 15:25:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] client: set Content-type of POST requests to text/xml.
 Otherwise some RPC-handling frameworks complain.

---
 client/http_curl.cpp | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/client/http_curl.cpp b/client/http_curl.cpp
index e3bc770d8e..96a8228c61 100644
--- a/client/http_curl.cpp
+++ b/client/http_curl.cpp
@@ -404,6 +404,8 @@ static int set_cloexec(void*, curl_socket_t fd, curlsocktype purpose) {
 int HTTP_OP::libcurl_exec(
     const char* url, const char* in, const char* out, double offset,
 #ifdef _WIN32
+    // expected size of file we're downloading.
+    // on Win, pre-allocate this file to reduce disk fragmentation
     double size,
 #else
     double,
@@ -559,6 +561,12 @@ int HTTP_OP::libcurl_exec(
         pcurlList = curl_slist_append(pcurlList, buf);
     }
 
+    // if this is a post, set content type (always text/xml)
+    //
+    if (is_post) {
+        pcurlList = curl_slist_append(pcurlList, "Content-type: text/xml");
+    }
+
     // set up an output file for the reply
     //
     if (strlen(outfile)) {