diff --git a/docs/MANUAL.md b/docs/MANUAL.md index 9c1b291f05..dbdba8a156 100644 --- a/docs/MANUAL.md +++ b/docs/MANUAL.md @@ -323,23 +323,22 @@ of the letter's ASCII code. Example: -(page located at `http://www.formpost.com/getthis/`) +(say if `http://example.com` had the following html) ```html
``` We want to enter user `foobar` with password `12345`. -To post to this, you enter a curl command line like: +To post to this, you would enter a curl command line like: - curl -d "user=foobar&pass=12345&id=blablabla&ding=submit" - http://www.formpost.com/getthis/post.cgi + curl -d "user=foobar&pass=12345&id=blablabla&ding=submit" http://example.com/post.cgi While `-d` uses the application/x-www-form-urlencoded mime-type, generally understood by CGI's and similar, curl also supports the more capable