Special characters like and in cURL POST data

Question

How do I include special characters like   and  amp  in the cURL POST data  I m trying to pass a name and password like   curl -d name john passwd  31 amp 3 J https   www mysite com   This would cause problems as   is used for loading files and  amp  for specifying more than one key value  Is there some way I can escape these characters     and   amp  don t seem to work

User · Answer

Try this   export CURLNAME  john  31 amp 3 J  curl -d -u    CURLNAME   https   www example com

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I did this       export A g      export B        export C nger      curl http    lt  gt USERNAME lt  gt 1  A B C  lt  gt URL lt  gt   lt  gt PATH lt  gt

User · Answer

How about using the entity codes          40   amp     26  So  you would have   curl -d  name john amp passwd  4031 263 J  https   www mysite com

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cURL   7 18 0 has an option --data-urlencode which solves this problem  Using this  I can simply send a POST request as  curl -d name john --data-urlencode passwd  31 amp 3 J https   www mysite com

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Just found another solutions worked for me  You can use     sign before your one special   passwd   31  amp 3 J

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Double quote       the entire URL  It works    curl  http   www mysite com name john amp passwd  31 amp 3 J

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