From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:05:31 +0000 (+0000) Subject: more explicit texts on the 4.2 answer X-Git-Tag: curl-7_10~77 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=daf55705e420bf8fcd4a9c96932a68bccf51c07f;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git more explicit texts on the 4.2 answer --- diff --git a/docs/FAQ b/docs/FAQ index 9164e07620..f31cf1e2aa 100644 --- a/docs/FAQ +++ b/docs/FAQ @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Updated: August 8, 2002 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html) +Updated: August 29, 2002 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html) _ _ ____ _ ___| | | | _ \| | / __| | | | |_) | | @@ -474,11 +474,12 @@ FAQ curl 'http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?text=yes&q=curl' - In win32, the standard DOS shell treats the %-letter specially and you may - need to quote the string properly when % is used in it. + In Windows, the standard DOS shell treats the %-letter specially and you + need to use TWO %-letters for each single one you want to use in the URL. Also note that if you want the literal %-letter to be part of the data you - pass in a POST using -d/--data you must encode it as '%25'. + pass in a POST using -d/--data you must encode it as '%25' (which then also + needs the %-letter doubled on Windows machines). 4.3. How can I use {, }, [ or ] to specify multiple URLs?