curl posting with header application/x-www-form-urlencoded

To make a POST request using curl and include a header of Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded, you can use the following command:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -d "key1=value1&key2=value2" http://example.com

This will send a POST request to http://example.com with a body that is encoded as application/x-www-form-urlencoded and two form fields: key1 with a value of value1, and key2 with a value of value2.

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You can also specify the form fields directly in the command line using the -F option:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -F "key1=value1" -F "key2=value2" http://example.com

This has the same effect as the first example, but allows you to specify the form fields directly on the command line instead of building the key1=value1&key2=value2 string manually.