Commit f33312fe authored by Jay Satiro's avatar Jay Satiro
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data-binary.d: clarify default content-type is x-www-form-urlencoded 

- Advise user that --data-binary sends a default content type of
  x-www-form-urlencoded, and to have the data treated as arbitrary
  binary data by the server set the content-type header to octet-stream.

Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2852#issuecomment-426465094

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3085
parent 9ba67b5b

docs/cmdline-opts/data-binary.d

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@@ -9,5 +9,10 @@ If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a filename. Data 
is posted in a similar manner as --data does, except that newlines and

carriage returns are preserved and conversions are never done.



Like --data the default content-type sent to the server is

application/x-www-form-urlencoded. If you want the data to be treated as

arbitrary binary data by the server then set the content-type to octet-stream:

-H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream".



If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will append

data as described in --data.