Commit f07cc911 authored by Theodore Dubois's avatar Theodore Dubois Committed by Daniel Stenberg
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curl.1: change example for -F 

It's a bad idea to send your passwords anywhere, especially over HTTP.
Modified example to send a picture instead.

Fixes #752
parent b207ccb1

docs/curl.1

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@@ -634,11 +634,10 @@ the symbol <. 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:

Example: to send an image to a server, where \&'profile' is the name of the

form-field to which portrait.jpg will be the input:



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

\fBcurl\fP -F profile=@portrait.jpg https://example.com/upload.cgi



To read content from stdin instead of a file, use - as the filename. This goes

for both @ and < constructs. Unfortunately it does not support reading the