cURL POST --data-binary using content from URL?

Question

Is it possible to use content from a URL to do Curl -data-binary POST?

POST content from a file:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: plain/text" --data-binary "@file.txt"  http://somewhere.com

Is there a curl command can do like

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: plain/text" --data-binary "http://somefile.com/file"  "http://somewhere.com"

suppose http://somefile.com/file is a binary text file

Hans Z. · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-11 20:43:43Z

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you can do the following:

curl -s http://somefile.com/file | curl --data-binary @- http://somewhere.com

answered Nov 18, 2014 at 20:52

Hans Z.

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removing the superfluous "-X POST" would make it even nicer =)