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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.md b/docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3d563fbdd --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +SPDX-License-Identifier: curl +Long: data-binary +Arg: <data> +Help: HTTP POST binary data +Protocols: HTTP +Category: http post upload +Added: 7.2 +Multi: append +See-also: + - data-ascii +Example: + - --data-binary @filename $URL +--- + +# `--data-binary` + +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 append +data as described in --data. |