From f07cc911088badfe6bae99dacb5dee9603f86336 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Dubois Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 14:14:47 -0700 Subject: 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 --- docs/curl.1 | 7 +++---- 1 file 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 -- cgit v1.2.3