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diff --git a/docs/MANUAL b/docs/MANUAL index 0af8c8205..8a66d1342 100644 --- a/docs/MANUAL +++ b/docs/MANUAL @@ -246,25 +246,25 @@ POST (HTTP) -F accepts parameters like -F "name=contents". If you want the contents to be read from a file, use <@filename> as contents. When specifying a file, you can also specify the file content type by appending ';type=<mime type>' - to the file name. You can also post the contents of several files in one field. - For example, the field name 'coolfiles' is used to send three files, with - different content types using the following syntax: + to the file name. You can also post the contents of several files in one + field. For example, the field name 'coolfiles' is used to send three files, + with different content types using the following syntax: curl -F "coolfiles=@fil1.gif;type=image/gif,fil2.txt,fil3.html" \ http://www.post.com/postit.cgi If the content-type is not specified, curl will try to guess from the file - extension (it only knows a few), or use the previously specified type - (from an earlier file if several files are specified in a list) or else it - will using the default type 'text/plain'. + extension (it only knows a few), or use the previously specified type (from + an earlier file if several files are specified in a list) or else it will + using the default type 'text/plain'. Emulate a fill-in form with -F. Let's say you fill in three fields in a form. One field is a file name which to post, one field is your name and one field is a file description. We want to post the file we have written named "cooltext.txt". To let curl do the posting of this data instead of your - favourite browser, you have to read the HTML source of the form page and find - the names of the input fields. In our example, the input field names are - 'file', 'yourname' and 'filedescription'. + favourite browser, you have to read the HTML source of the form page and + find the names of the input fields. In our example, the input field names + are 'file', 'yourname' and 'filedescription'. curl -F "file=@cooltext.txt" -F "yourname=Daniel" \ -F "filedescription=Cool text file with cool text inside" \ |