How to post raw body data with curl

Question

Before you post this as a duplicate  I ve tried many of the suggestions I found around SO   So far I ve been using postman to post data to a Java web service  That works great as follows     I now want to do the same using curl  so I tried it using the following ways     curl -X POST --data  this is raw data  http   78 41 xx xx 7778    curl -X POST --data-binary  this is raw data  http   78 41 xx xx 7778    curl -X POST --data    home kramer65 afile txt  http   78 41 xx xx 7778    curl -X POST --data-binary    home kramer65 afile txt  http   78 41 xx xx 7778    Unfortunately  all of those show an empty raw body on the receiving side    Does anybody know what I m doing wrong here  How is my curl request different from my postman request  All tips are welcome

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curl s --data will by default send Content-Type  application x-www-form-urlencoded in the request header  However  when using Postman s raw body mode  Postman sends Content-Type  text plain in the request header   So to achieve the same thing as Postman  specify -H  Content-Type  text plain  for curl   curl -X POST -H  Content-Type  text plain  --data  this is raw data  http   78 41 xx xx 7778    Note that if you want to watch the full request sent by Postman  you can enable debugging for packed app  Check this link for all instructions  Then you can inspect the app  right-click in Postman  and view all requests sent from Postman in the network tab

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