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| author | Theodore Dubois <tbodt@users.noreply.github.com> | 2016-04-05 14:14:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2016-04-06 10:26:52 +0200 |
| commit | f07cc911088badfe6bae99dacb5dee9603f86336 (patch) | |
| tree | 80c9c7f8c0317b38f4317e244b081da3e1490dfb /docs | |
| parent | b207ccb104b3278c866cdb03c25f11684f1e06b5 (diff) | |
curl.1: change example for -F
It's a bad idea to send your passwords anywhere, especially over HTTP.
Modified example to send a picture instead.
Fixes #752
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 668e385ff..2c3dee0ff 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -634,11 +634,10 @@ the symbol <. The difference between @ and < is then that @ makes a file get attached in the post as a file upload, while the < makes a text field and just get the contents for that text field from a file. -Example, to send your password file to the server, where -\&'password' is the name of the form-field to which /etc/passwd will be the -input: +Example: to send an image to a server, where \&'profile' is the name of the +form-field to which portrait.jpg will be the input: -\fBcurl\fP -F password=@/etc/passwd www.mypasswords.com +\fBcurl\fP -F profile=@portrait.jpg https://example.com/upload.cgi To read content from stdin instead of a file, use - as the filename. This goes for both @ and < constructs. Unfortunately it does not support reading the |