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Long: form
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Short: F
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Arg: <name=content>
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Help: Specify HTTP multipart POST data
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Protocols: HTTP
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Mutexed: data head upload
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This lets curl emulate a filled-in form in which a user has pressed the submit
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button. This causes curl to POST data using the Content-Type
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multipart/form-data according to RFC 2388. This enables uploading of binary
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files etc. To force the 'content' part to be a file, prefix the file name with
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an @ sign. To just get the content part from a file, prefix the file name with
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the symbol <. The difference between @ and < is then that @ makes a file get
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attached in the post as a file upload, while the < makes a text field and just
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get the contents for that text field from a file.
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Example: to send an image to a server, where \&'profile' is the name of the
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form-field to which portrait.jpg will be the input:
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curl -F profile=@portrait.jpg https://example.com/upload.cgi
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To read content from stdin instead of a file, use - as the filename. This goes
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for both @ and < constructs. Unfortunately it does not support reading the
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file from a named pipe or similar, as it needs the full size before the
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transfer starts.
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You can also tell curl what Content-Type to use by using 'type=', in a manner
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similar to:
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curl -F "web=@index.html;type=text/html" example.com
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or
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curl -F "name=daniel;type=text/foo" example.com
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You can also explicitly change the name field of a file upload part by setting
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filename=, like this:
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curl -F "file=@localfile;filename=nameinpost" example.com
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If filename/path contains ',' or ';', it must be quoted by double-quotes like:
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curl -F "file=@\\"localfile\\";filename=\\"nameinpost\\"" example.com
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or
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curl -F 'file=@"localfile";filename="nameinpost"' example.com
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Note that if a filename/path is quoted by double-quotes, any double-quote
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or backslash within the filename must be escaped by backslash.
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See further examples and details in the MANUAL.
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This option can be used multiple times.
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