How to use curl to load a router's backup configuration file

oneindelijk · 10-22-2012, 10:31 AM

Hi,

For the purpose of testing we need to change a lot of routers to a lot of different settings.
To automate this process, I'm trying to upload the settings files that we've made into the router.
Somebody told me to use curl, but I can't even figure out how to get the string that needs to be sent to the router.
I've tried to get this information with snarf en dsniff, but I don't know how to use these either.
Can someone help, please ?

oneindelijk · 10-22-2012, 12:55 PM

Hi, I think I found the fields I need to use (in the http header captured with wireshark).
So I constructed teh syntax as follows:
curl --form button=restore --form upload=/home/sam/test.cfg -u admin:password http://192.168.2.103:8080/restore.cgi
curl exits without errors, but the router's configuration is not updated