Newline character in post request

Question

I want to send new-line-character as part of a value of a post request (text)variable. I am using wget to fire the request. How do I code that ?

Answer 1

According to the W3C spec, you encode a line break as %0D%0A in the x-www-form-urlencoded format -- which is what you hand to the --post-data option to wget.