31 lines
1.4 KiB
Makefile
31 lines
1.4 KiB
Makefile
Long: data
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Short: d
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Arg: <data>
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Help: HTTP POST data
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Protocols: HTTP
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See-also: data-binary data-urlencode data-raw
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Mutexed: form head upload-file
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---
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Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP server, in the same way
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that a browser does when a user has filled in an HTML form and presses the
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submit button. This will cause curl to pass the data to the server using the
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content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to --form.
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--data-raw is almost the same but does not have a special interpretation of
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the @ character. To post data purely binary, you should instead use the
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--data-binary option. To URL-encode the value of a form field you may use
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--data-urlencode.
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If any of these options is used more than once on the same command line, the
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data pieces specified will be merged together with a separating
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&-symbol. Thus, using '-d name=daniel -d skill=lousy' would generate a post
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chunk that looks like \&'name=daniel&skill=lousy'.
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If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a file name to
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read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from
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stdin. Multiple files can also be specified. Posting data from a file named
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'foobar' would thus be done with --data @foobar. When --data is told to read
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from a file like that, carriage returns and newlines will be stripped out. If
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you don't want the @ character to have a special interpretation use --data-raw
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instead.
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