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Simple POST
When the data is sent by a browser after data have been filled in a form, it will send it URL encoded, as a serialized name=value pairs separated with ampersand symbols (&). You send such data with curl's -d or --data option like this:
curl -d 'name=admin&shoesize=12' http://example.com/
When specifying multiple -d options on the command line, curl will concatenate them and insert ampersands in between, so the above example could also be made like this:
curl -d name=admin -d shoesize=12 http://example.com/
If the amount of data to send is not really fit to put in a mere string on the command line, you can also read it off a file name in standard curl style:
curl -d @filename http://example.com
While the server might assume that the data is encoded in some special way, curl does not encode or change the data you tell it to send. curl sends exactly the bytes you give it.
To send a POST body that starts with a @ symbol, to avoid that curl tries to load that as a file name, use --data-raw instead. This option has no file loading capability:
curl --data-raw '@string' https://example.com
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