Added Torsten Foertsch's changes to the -F description and his name to the

describes why and more). This flag will prevent curl from

outputting that and fail silently instead.

.IP "-F/--form <name=content>"

(HTTP)

This lets curl emulate a filled in form in which a user has pressed

the submit button. This causes curl to POST data using the

content-type multipart/form-data according to RFC1867. This enables

uploading of binary files etc. To force the 'content' part to be

read from a file, prefix the file name with an @ sign. Example, to

send your password file to the server, where 'password' is the

name of the form-field to which /etc/passwd will be the input:

(HTTP) This lets curl emulate a filled in form in which a user has pressed the

submit button. This causes curl to POST data using the content-type

multipart/form-data according to RFC1867. This enables uploading of binary

files etc. To force the 'content' part to be be a file, prefix the file name

with an @ sign. To just get the content part from a file, prefix the file name

with the letter <. The difference between @ and < is then that @ makes a file

get attached in the post as a file upload, while the < makes a text field and

just get the contents for that text field from a file.

Example, to send your password file to the server, where

'password' is the name of the form-field to which /etc/passwd will be the

input:

.B curl

-F password=@/etc/passwd www.mypasswords.com

To read the file's content from stdin insted of a file, use - where the file

name should've been.

name should've been. This goes for both @ and < constructs.

.IP "-h/--help"

Usage help.

.IP "-H/--header <header>"

 - David LeBlanc <dleblanc@qnx.com>

 - Rich Gray at Plus Technologies

 - Luong Dinh Dung <u8luong@lhsystems.hu>

 - Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch@gmx.net>

.SH WWW

http://curl.haxx.se