1 c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 2 SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 3 Long: data-binary 4 Arg: <data> 5 Help: HTTP POST binary data 6 Protocols: HTTP 7 Category: http post upload 8 Example: --data-binary @filename $URL 9 Added: 7.2 10 See-also: data-ascii 11 Multi: append 12 --- 13 This posts data exactly as specified with no extra processing whatsoever. 14 15 If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a filename. Data 16 is posted in a similar manner as --data does, except that newlines and 17 carriage returns are preserved and conversions are never done. 18 19 Like --data the default content-type sent to the server is 20 application/x-www-form-urlencoded. If you want the data to be treated as 21 arbitrary binary data by the server then set the content-type to octet-stream: 22 -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream". 23 24 If this option is used several times, the ones following the first append 25 data as described in --data. 26