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data-binary.d: clarify default content-type is x-www-form-urlencoded

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- Advise user that --data-binary sends a default content type of
  x-www-form-urlencoded, and to have the data treated as arbitrary
  binary data by the server set the content-type header to octet-stream.

Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2852#issuecomment-426465094

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3085
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@ -9,5 +9,10 @@ If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a filename. Data
is posted in a similar manner as --data does, except that newlines and is posted in a similar manner as --data does, except that newlines and
carriage returns are preserved and conversions are never done. carriage returns are preserved and conversions are never done.
Like --data the default content-type sent to the server is
application/x-www-form-urlencoded. If you want the data to be treated as
arbitrary binary data by the server then set the content-type to octet-stream:
-H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream".
If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will append If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will append
data as described in --data. data as described in --data.