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curl

    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.