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authorPatrick Monnerat <patrick@monnerat.net>2017-10-29 13:57:16 +0100
committermonnerat <monnerat@users.noreply.github.com>2017-10-29 16:23:06 +0100
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cli tool: in -F option arg, comma is a delimiter for files only
Also upgrade test 1133 to cover this case and clarify man page about form data quoting. Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2022 Reported-By: omau on github
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@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ or
Note that if a filename/path is quoted by double-quotes, any double-quote
or backslash within the filename must be escaped by backslash.
+Quoting must also be applied to non-file data if it contains semicolons,
+leading/trailing spaces or leading double quotes:
+
+ curl -F 'colors="red; green; blue";type=text/x-myapp' example.com
+
You can add custom headers to the field by setting headers=, like
curl -F "submit=OK;headers=\\"X-submit-type: OK\\"" example.com