[post] Special characters like @ and & in cURL POST data

How do I include special characters like @ and & in the cURL POST data? I'm trying to pass a name and password like:

curl -d name=john passwd=@31&3*J https://www.mysite.com

This would cause problems as @ is used for loading files and & for specifying more than one key/value. Is there some way I can escape these characters? \@ and \& don't seem to work.

Just found another solutions worked for me. You can use '\' sign before your one special.

passwd=\@31\&3*J

Try this:

export CURLNAME="john:@31&3*J"
curl -d -u "${CURLNAME}" https://www.example.com

How about using the entity codes...

@ = %40

& = %26

So, you would have:

curl -d 'name=john&passwd=%4031%263*J' https://www.mysite.com

Double quote (" ") the entire URL .It works.

curl "http://www.mysite.com?name=john&passwd=@31&3*J"

I did this

~]$ export A=g

~]$ export B=!

~]$ export C=nger


   curl http://<>USERNAME<>1:$A$B$C@<>URL<>/<>PATH<>/