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| author | Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com> | 2018-10-02 21:55:57 -0400 |
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| committer | Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com> | 2018-10-03 02:26:28 -0400 |
| commit | f33312fe3330363633f379b1d291745184ce01ce (patch) | |
| tree | 67c745cbb24495edffd2ebcc00b8073d8f9de644 | |
| parent | 9ba67b5b7991d785df16dd1774879b7b8bbe3e78 (diff) | |
| download | curl-f33312fe3330363633f379b1d291745184ce01ce.tar.gz | |
data-binary.d: clarify default content-type is x-www-form-urlencoded
- Advise user that --data-binary sends a default content type of
x-www-form-urlencoded, and to have the data treated as arbitrary
binary data by the server set the content-type header to octet-stream.
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2852#issuecomment-426465094
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3085
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.d | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.d index c6721c641..3f6ff2dbd 100644 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.d +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.d @@ -9,5 +9,10 @@ If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a filename. Data is posted in a similar manner as --data does, except that newlines and carriage returns are preserved and conversions are never done. +Like --data the default content-type sent to the server is +application/x-www-form-urlencoded. If you want the data to be treated as +arbitrary binary data by the server then set the content-type to octet-stream: +-H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream". + If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will append data as described in --data. |