Imported Upstream version 7.48.0

[platform/upstream/curl.git] / docs / libcurl / opts / CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3
index d559143..f9f9ead 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 .\" *
 .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
 .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
-.\" * are also available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html.
+.\" * are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html.
 .\" *
 .\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell
 .\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ used by HTML forms. Change Content-Type with \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP.
 
 Using \fICURLOPT_POSTFIELDS(3)\fP implies \fICURLOPT_POST(3)\fP.
 
+You can use \fIcurl_easy_escape(3)\fP to url-encode your data, if necessary. It
+returns a pointer to an encoded string that can be passed as \fIpostdata\fP.
+
 If you want to do a zero-byte POST, you need to set
 \fICURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE(3)\fP explicitly to zero, as simply setting
 \fICURLOPT_POSTFIELDS(3)\fP to NULL or "" just effectively disables the