that can emulate as if a user has filled in a HTML form and pressed the submit
button. Note that the data is sent exactly as specified with no extra
processing (with all newlines cut off). The data is expected to be
-"url-encoded". This will cause curl to pass the data to the server using the
+\&"url-encoded". This will cause curl to pass the data to the server using the
content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to -F. If more than
one -d/--data option is used on the same command line, the data pieces
specified will be merged together with a separating &-letter. Thus, using '-d
read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from stdin. The
contents of the file must already be url-encoded. Multiple files can also be
specified. Posting data from a file named 'foobar' would thus be done with
-"--data @foobar".
+\&"--data @foobar".
To post data purely binary, you should instead use the --data-binary option.
This option overrides existing environment variables that sets proxy to
use. If there's an environment variable setting a proxy, you can set proxy to
-"" to override it.
+\&"" to override it.
\fBNote\fP that all operations that are performed over a HTTP proxy will
transparantly be converted to HTTP. It means that certain protocol specific