im trying to use the system curl to post gzipped data to a server but i keep ending up with strange errors
`curl -sS -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/gzip" --data-binary $data $url`
gives
curl: no URL specified!
and
`curl -sS -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/gzip" --data-binary "$data" $url`
gives
sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file