From f33312fe3330363633f379b1d291745184ce01ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jay Satiro Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 21:55:57 -0400 Subject: data-binary.d: clarify default content-type is x-www-form-urlencoded - Advise user that --data-binary sends a default content type of x-www-form-urlencoded, and to have the data treated as arbitrary binary data by the server set the content-type header to octet-stream. Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2852#issuecomment-426465094 Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3085 --- docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.d | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.d') diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.d index c6721c641..3f6ff2dbd 100644 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.d +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.d @@ -9,5 +9,10 @@ If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a filename. Data is posted in a similar manner as --data does, except that newlines and carriage returns are preserved and conversions are never done. +Like --data the default content-type sent to the server is +application/x-www-form-urlencoded. If you want the data to be treated as +arbitrary binary data by the server then set the content-type to octet-stream: +-H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream". + If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will append data as described in --data. -- cgit v1.2.3