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

Try this:

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