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1.1     ! misho       1: Long: data
        !             2: Short: d
        !             3: Arg: <data>
        !             4: Help: HTTP POST data
        !             5: Protocols: HTTP MQTT
        !             6: See-also: data-binary data-urlencode data-raw
        !             7: Mutexed: form head upload-file
        !             8: ---
        !             9: Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP server, in the same way
        !            10: that a browser does when a user has filled in an HTML form and presses the
        !            11: submit button. This will cause curl to pass the data to the server using the
        !            12: content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded.  Compare to --form.
        !            13: 
        !            14: --data-raw is almost the same but does not have a special interpretation of
        !            15: the @ character. To post data purely binary, you should instead use the
        !            16: --data-binary option.  To URL-encode the value of a form field you may use
        !            17: --data-urlencode.
        !            18: 
        !            19: If any of these options is used more than once on the same command line, the
        !            20: data pieces specified will be merged together with a separating
        !            21: &-symbol. Thus, using '-d name=daniel -d skill=lousy' would generate a post
        !            22: chunk that looks like \&'name=daniel&skill=lousy'.
        !            23: 
        !            24: If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a file name to
        !            25: read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from stdin. Posting
        !            26: data from a file named \&'foobar' would thus be done with --data @foobar. When
        !            27: --data is told to read from a file like that, carriage returns and newlines
        !            28: will be stripped out. If you don't want the @ character to have a special
        !            29: interpretation use --data-raw instead.