simplepost.c shows a simple POST ;-)

docs/examples/Makefile.am

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = README curlgtk.c sepheaders.c simple.c postit2.c		\
 	     multithread.c getinmemory.c ftpupload.c httpput.c		\
 	     simplessl.c ftpgetresp.c http-post.c post-callback.c	\
 	     multi-app.c multi-double.c multi-single.c multi-post.c	\
-	     fopen.c
+	     fopen.c simplepost.c
 
 all:
 	@echo "done"

docs/examples/simplepost.c

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+/*****************************************************************************
+ *                                  _   _ ____  _     
+ *  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |    
+ *                             / __| | | | |_) | |    
+ *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___ 
+ *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+ *
+ * $Id$
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+  CURL *curl;
+  CURLcode res;
+
+  char *postthis="moo mooo moo moo";
+
+  curl = curl_easy_init();
+  if(curl) {
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://posthere.com");
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, postthis);
+
+    /* if we don't provide POSTFIELDSIZE, libcurl will strlen() by
+       itself */
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, strlen(postthis));
+
+    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+
+    /* always cleanup */
+    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+  }
+  return 0;
+}