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- Long: data
- Short: d
- Arg: <data>
- Help: HTTP POST data
- Protocols: HTTP
- See-also: data-binary data-urlencode data-raw
- Mutexed: form head upload-file
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- 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.
- --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-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'.
- 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. Multiple files can also be specified. Posting data from a file named
- 'foobar' would thus be done with --data @foobar. When --data is told to read
- from a file like that, carriage returns and newlines will be stripped out. If
- you don't want the @ character to have a special interpretation use --data-raw
- instead.
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