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Asked: 2026-05-15T20:42:29+00:00

I have a script with which I POST data to a server using cURL.

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I have a script with which I POST data to a server using cURL. When I use an HTML form to POST the same data, the POST looks something like this and all is well:

description=Something&name=aName&xml=wholeBiunchOfData&xslt=moreData

The XML and XSLT are large and change; I would prefer to maintain them in external files. However, the following does not work as I expect;

curl --cookie cjar --cookie-jar cjar --location --output NUL ^
 --data "name=aName&description=Something" ^
    --data "xml=@localFile.xml" ^
 --data "xslt=@localFile.xslt" ^
 http://someUrl.html

I have tried various combinations of the @ and local files without success. How do I POST the contents of a file?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’d recommend trying the following:

    curl --cookie cjar --cookie-jar cjar --location --output NUL ^
 --data "name=aName&description=Something" ^
    --data-urlencode "xml@localFile.xml" ^
 --data-urlencode "xslt@localFile.xslt" ^
 http://someUrl.html

    XML (including stylesheets) will need to be URL-encoded before being made part of a URL.

    You can also use --trace-ascii - as an additional parameter to dump the input and output to standard out for further debugging, and you can find more information on the main man page.

    Hope this helps!

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