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

Just found another solutions worked for me. You can use '\' sign before your one special.

passwd=\@31\&3*J

Answer 2

Try this:

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

Answer 3

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

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

Answer 4

I did this

~]$ export A=g

~]$ export B=!

~]$ export C=nger


   curl http://<>USERNAME<>1:$A$B$C@<>URL<>/<>PATH<>/

Answer 5

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&3*J https://www.mysite.com

Answer 6

How about using the entity codes...

@ = %40

& = %26

So, you would have:

curl -d 'name=john&passwd=%4031%263*J' https://www.mysite.com