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curl.1: change example for -F

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It's a bad idea to send your passwords anywhere, especially over HTTP.
Modified example to send a picture instead.

Fixes #752
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Theodore Dubois 2016-04-05 14:14:47 -07:00 committed by Daniel Stenberg
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@ -634,11 +634,10 @@ the symbol <. The difference between @ and < is then that @ makes a file get
attached in the post as a file upload, while the < makes a text field and just
get the contents for that text field from a file.
Example, to send your password file to the server, where
\&'password' is the name of the form-field to which /etc/passwd will be the
input:
Example: to send an image to a server, where \&'profile' is the name of the
form-field to which portrait.jpg will be the input:
\fBcurl\fP -F password=@/etc/passwd www.mypasswords.com
\fBcurl\fP -F profile=@portrait.jpg https://example.com/upload.cgi
To read content from stdin instead of a file, use - as the filename. This goes
for both @ and < constructs. Unfortunately it does not support reading the