Special characters like @ and & in cURL POST data

Question

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*         


        

Answer 1

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

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