curl/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d
Daniel Stenberg ce6e3e5320
cmdline-opts: made the 'Added:' field mandatory
Since "too old" versions are no longer included in the generated man
page, this field is now mandatory so that it won't be forgotten and then
not included in the documentation.

Closes #7786
2021-09-28 16:20:12 +02:00

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Long: data
Short: d
Arg: <data>
Help: HTTP POST data
Protocols: HTTP MQTT
See-also: data-binary data-urlencode data-raw
Mutexed: form head upload-file
Category: important http post upload
Example: -d "name=curl" $URL
Example: -d "name=curl" -d "tool=cmdline" $URL
Example: -d @filename $URL
Added: 4.0
---
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. 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.