How to Set a POST Variable From a File When Using Curl

When using curl, how do you set the value of one or more of the POST variable’s from the contents of a file? For the longest time, I didn’t know. But recently I found out. In this post, I’ll step you through several ways you can do it.

Links from the episode

• The curl manpage
• curl
• RFC 2388
• multipart/form-data
• STDIN

The post which this episode was based on: How to Set a Post Variable from a File When Using Curl.

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