data-urlencode.md

c	SPDX-License-Identifier	Long	Arg	Help	Protocols	Added	Category	Multi	See-also	Example
Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.	curl	data-urlencode	<data>	HTTP POST data URL encoded	HTTP	7.18.0	http post upload	append	data data-raw	--data-urlencode name=val $URL --data-urlencode =encodethis $URL --data-urlencode name@file $URL --data-urlencode @fileonly $URL

--data-urlencode

This posts data, similar to the other --data options with the exception that this performs URL-encoding.

To be CGI-compliant, the <data> part should begin with a name followed by a separator and a content specification. The <data> part can be passed to curl using one of the following syntaxes:

content

This makes curl URL-encode the content and pass that on. Just be careful so that the content does not contain any = or @ symbols, as that makes the syntax match one of the other cases below!

=content

This makes curl URL-encode the content and pass that on. The preceding = symbol is not included in the data.

name=content

This makes curl URL-encode the content part and pass that on. Note that the name part is expected to be URL-encoded already.

@filename

This makes curl load data from the given file (including any newlines), URL-encode that data and pass it on in the POST.

name@filename

This makes curl load data from the given file (including any newlines), URL-encode that data and pass it on in the POST. The name part gets an equal sign appended, resulting in name=urlencoded-file-content. Note that the name is expected to be URL-encoded already.