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.\" Written by Daniel Stenberg
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-.TH curl 1 "26 September 2000" "Curl 7.3" "Curl Manual"
+.TH curl 1 "26 October 2000" "Curl 7.4.2" "Curl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl \- get a URL with FTP, TELNET, LDAP, GOPHER, DICT, FILE, HTTP or
HTTPS syntax.
that the data is sent exactly as specified with no extra processing (with all
newlines cut off). The data is expected to be "url-encoded". This will cause
curl to pass the data to the server using the content-type
-application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to -F.
+application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to -F. If more than one -d/--data
+option is used on the same command line, the data pieces specified will be
+merged together with a separating &-letter. 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.
-The contents of the file must already be url-encoded.
+read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from stdin. The
+contents of the file must already be url-encoded. Multiple files can also be
+specified.
To post data purely binary, you should instead use the --data-binary option.