Imported Upstream version 7.44.0

[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..27e4510 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3
@@ -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