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-F accepts parameters like -F "name=contents". If you want the contents to
be read from a file, use <@filename> as contents. When specifying a file,
you can also specify the file content type by appending ';type=<mime type>'
- to the file name. You can also post the contents of several files in one field.
- For example, the field name 'coolfiles' is used to send three files, with
- different content types using the following syntax:
+ to the file name. You can also post the contents of several files in one
+ field. For example, the field name 'coolfiles' is used to send three files,
+ with different content types using the following syntax:
curl -F "coolfiles=@fil1.gif;type=image/gif,fil2.txt,fil3.html" \
http://www.post.com/postit.cgi
If the content-type is not specified, curl will try to guess from the file
- extension (it only knows a few), or use the previously specified type
- (from an earlier file if several files are specified in a list) or else it
- will using the default type 'text/plain'.
+ extension (it only knows a few), or use the previously specified type (from
+ an earlier file if several files are specified in a list) or else it will
+ using the default type 'text/plain'.
Emulate a fill-in form with -F. Let's say you fill in three fields in a
form. One field is a file name which to post, one field is your name and one
field is a file description. We want to post the file we have written named
"cooltext.txt". To let curl do the posting of this data instead of your
- favourite browser, you have to read the HTML source of the form page and find
- the names of the input fields. In our example, the input field names are
- 'file', 'yourname' and 'filedescription'.
+ favourite browser, you have to read the HTML source of the form page and
+ find the names of the input fields. In our example, the input field names
+ are 'file', 'yourname' and 'filedescription'.
curl -F "file=@cooltext.txt" -F "yourname=Daniel" \
-F "filedescription=Cool text file with cool text inside" \