1 Long: data 2 Short: d 3 Arg: <data> 4 Help: HTTP POST data 5 Protocols: HTTP 6 See-also: data-binary data-urlencode data-raw 7 Mutexed: form head upload 8 --- 9 Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP server, in the same way 10 that a browser does when a user has filled in an HTML form and presses the 11 submit button. This will cause curl to pass the data to the server using the 12 content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to --form. 13 14 --data-raw is almost the same but does not have a special interpretation of 15 the @ character. To post data purely binary, you should instead use the 16 --data-binary option. To URL-encode the value of a form field you may use 17 --data-urlencode. 18 19 If any of these options is used more than once on the same command line, the 20 data pieces specified will be merged together with a separating 21 &-symbol. Thus, using '-d name=daniel -d skill=lousy' would generate a post 22 chunk that looks like \&'name=daniel&skill=lousy'. 23 24 If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a file name to 25 read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from 26 stdin. Multiple files can also be specified. Posting data from a file named 27 'foobar' would thus be done with \fI--data\fP @foobar. When --data is told to 28 read from a file like that, carriage returns and newlines will be stripped 29 out. If you don't want the @ character to have a special interpretation use 30 --data-raw instead. 31
