From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:48:45 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: data.d: emphasize no conversion
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data.d: emphasize no conversion

When asking curl to send a POST, curl does not encode or change the data.

Ref: #10820
Closes #10823
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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d
index 7298615c53..ff8a3b0b62 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d
@@ -35,3 +35,7 @@ data from a file named 'foobar' would thus be done with --data @foobar. When
 --data is told to read from a file like that, carriage returns and newlines
 will be stripped out. If you do not want the @ character to have a special
 interpretation use --data-raw instead.
+
+The data for this option is passed on to the server exactly as provided on the
+command line. curl will not convert it, change it or improve it. It is up to
+the user to provide the data in the correct form.