1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: data-urlencode 5Arg: <data> 6Help: HTTP POST data URL encoded 7Protocols: HTTP 8Added: 7.18.0 9Category: http post upload 10Multi: append 11See-also: 12 - data 13 - data-raw 14Example: 15 - --data-urlencode name=val $URL 16 - --data-urlencode =encodethis $URL 17 - --data-urlencode name@file $URL 18 - --data-urlencode @fileonly $URL 19--- 20 21# `--data-urlencode` 22 23Post data, similar to the other --data options with the exception that this 24performs URL-encoding. 25 26To be CGI-compliant, the \<data\> part should begin with a *name* followed by 27a separator and a content specification. The \<data\> part can be passed to 28curl using one of the following syntaxes: 29 30## content 31URL-encode the content and pass that on. Just be careful so that the content 32does not contain any `=` or `@` symbols, as that makes the syntax match one of 33the other cases below. 34 35## =content 36URL-encode the content and pass that on. The preceding `=` symbol is not 37included in the data. 38 39## name=content 40URL-encode the content part and pass that on. Note that the name part is 41expected to be URL-encoded already. 42 43## @filename 44load data from the given file (including any newlines), URL-encode that data 45and pass it on in the POST. Using `@-` makes curl read the data from stdin. 46 47## name@filename 48load data from the given file (including any newlines), URL-encode that data 49and pass it on in the POST. The name part gets an equal sign appended, 50resulting in *name=urlencoded-file-content*. Note that the name is expected to 51be URL-encoded already. 52
