spell out that POSTFIELDS should be url-encoded in most cases

.TP

.B CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS

Pass a char * as parameter, which should be the full data to post in a HTTP

post operation. This is a normal application/x-www-form-urlencoded kind, which

is the most commonly used one by HTML forms. See also the CURLOPT_POST. Since

7.8, using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS implies CURLOPT_POST.

post operation. You need to make sure that the data is formatted the way you

want the server to receive it. libcurl will not convert or encode it for

you. Most web servers will assume this data to be url-encoded. Take note.

This POST is a normal application/x-www-form-urlencoded kind (and libcurl will

set that Content-Type by default when this option is used), which is the most

commonly used one by HTML forms. See also the CURLOPT_POST. Using

CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS implies CURLOPT_POST.

\fBNote:\fP to make multipart/formdata posts (aka rfc1867-posts), check out

the \fICURLOPT_HTTPPOST\fP option.