curl fails while attempting to POST a char device

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

curl does not support content=@/dev/null

# curl --form content="@/dev/null" http://form.example.org
curl: (43) A libcurl function was given a bad argument

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x
  • curl 7.29

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