On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, David Houlder wrote:

> curl --form name=@filename http://somewhere.org
> it does a multipart form post, and transfers the contents of filename.
>
> OK then: how do I transfer a literal value that starts with '@'. Is there
> any way of sending a literal 'name=@some-string'? As far as I can tell from
> reading the curl man page, the 'value' part isn't supposed to be URL
> encoded, so '@' is a perfectly valid character that you might want to send.

Looking at the code, and thinking about it, I think you've found a flaw since
I don't think you can send a literal '@' letter first in a string with the
command line tool.

You have any suggestion on a syntax that would enable this without breaking
backwards compatibility?

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