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author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2013-12-18 22:46:38 +0100 |
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committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2013-12-18 22:46:38 +0100 |
commit | 0a898655e8130214d98cf7dc8609bb2a775a860a (patch) | |
tree | 55a922bed2a082d6891ebd57899fc8d173029f73 /docs | |
parent | 48043f87b60a74af22bfe66a2db3b105a946921c (diff) |
curl.1: remove URL encoding phrase from --data description
... it could be misleading a reader into thinking it _has_ to be encoded.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 49194762a..32ae92a8d 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -287,11 +287,11 @@ data pieces specified will be merged together with a separating chunk that looks like \&'name=daniel&skill=lousy'. If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a file name to -read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from stdin. The -contents of the file must already be URL-encoded. Multiple files can also be -specified. Posting data from a file named 'foobar' would thus be done with -\fI--data\fP @foobar. When --data is told to read from a file like that, -carriage returns and newlines will be stripped out. +read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from +stdin. Multiple files can also be specified. Posting data from a file +named 'foobar' would thus be done with \fI--data\fP @foobar. When --data is +told to read from a file like that, carriage returns and newlines will be +stripped out. .IP "-D, --dump-header <file>" Write the protocol headers to the specified file. |