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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.