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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d index 9425ba24f..682314c02 100644 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d @@ -14,17 +14,17 @@ Added: 4.0 Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP server, in the same way that a browser does when a user has filled in an HTML form and presses the submit button. This will cause curl to pass the data to the server using the -content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to --form. +content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to --form. --data-raw is almost the same but does not have a special interpretation of the @ character. To post data purely binary, you should instead use the ---data-binary option. To URL-encode the value of a form field you may use +--data-binary option. To URL-encode the value of a form field you may use --data-urlencode. If any of these options is used more than once on the same command line, the -data pieces specified will be merged together with a separating -&-symbol. Thus, using '-d name=daniel -d skill=lousy' would generate a post -chunk that looks like \&'name=daniel&skill=lousy'. +data pieces specified will be merged with a separating &-symbol. Thus, using +\&'-d name=daniel -d skill=lousy' would generate a post chunk that looks like +\&'name=daniel&skill=lousy'. If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a file name to read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from stdin. Posting |