How to post message directly to server?

[br...@brianclements.net]

I'm having trouble translating these instructions into actual terminal commands using either curl or netcat on ubuntu 14.04. Anyone have any pointers? I know I can connect to the port correctly:

○ netcat -vz localhost 28777
Connection to localhost 28777 port [tcp/*] succeeded!

But trying to post things does nothing (I have the web interface open in the browser and nothing shows up):

○ netcat -v localhost 28777
Connection to localhost 28777 port [tcp/*] succeeded!
+node|testnode|test_stream\r\n
+log|test_stream|testnode|info|log message\r\n

Any ideas on how to proceed? I'd like to be able to create a helper script in bash to just send program output to my log.io server for quick and dirty program status monitoring.