One of the promoted examples on the indieweb site for webmentions is sending webmentions manually with curl. But since it's form encoded you'll never know what

One of the promoted examples on the indieweb site for webmentions is sending webmentions manually with curl. But since it's form encoded you'll never know what the values were when you look in the logs. If it was just a URL string then you could do the entire thing manually with cURL. You'd have to agree this would be a distinction with a difference.