Hello, Dan. Thanks for taking on the issue.

First of all, there is not a zero-dash version of the option. I just left it out for brevity. There are only one-dash and two-dash versions.

Indeed, I am interchanging these indiscriminately because that's what the man page does. Here are the three examples given in the man page. They take 5 lines because two of them have a line feed in the middle.

-d, --data [data]
'-d name=daniel -d
skill=lousy'
--data @foo-
bar

There is no explanation in the text of whether or not to use a space between the option and the data, so the only guidance the reader has is the examples, which all have a space (or a line ending).

Reading from your examples, I think you are telling me that the one-dash options should *not* have a space before the data, but the two-dash options *should* have a space before the data. Whatever the rule is, the documentation should state it. That's the issue.

Thanks!

Jerry

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** [bugs:#1279] Man Page: POST --data<space><data> space is wrong**
**Status:** open
**Labels:** documentation POST 
**Created:** Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:54 PM UTC by Jerry Krinock
**Last Updated:** Fri Sep 13, 2013 06:34 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
In curl version 7.24.0, in Mac OS X 10.8, in the man page, the examples given for the -POST data options: d, -data etc. all have a space between the option and the data.  Example: --data <data>.  When I do this, it doesn't work.  The server gets the data "ata".  I noticed that these three characters were the last three characters in the option "data".  So I tried it without the space, -d<data>, and it worked.
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