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+====== Curl - Post to a page ======
+To process a POST request using CURL.
+The data will use the **application/x-www-form-urlencoded** encoding.
+Lets say you have the following POST form in your page:
+<code html>
+<form method="POST" action="process.php">
+          <input type=text name="item">
+          <input type=text name="category">
+          <input type=submit name="submit" value="ok">
+</form>
+</code>
+You can use the following CURL command to POST the request.
+<code bash>
+curl -d "item=bottle&category=consumer&submit=ok" www.example.com/process.php
+</code>