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curl/docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.d
Jay Satiro f33312fe33 data-binary.d: clarify default content-type is x-www-form-urlencoded
- 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
2018-10-03 02:26:28 -04:00

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Long: data-binary
Arg: <data>
Help: HTTP POST binary data
Protocols: HTTP
---
This posts data exactly as specified with no extra processing whatsoever.
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
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
data as described in --data.