Re: [Bug-wget] Request body in GET requests

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Micah Cowan <address@hidden> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>> A friend pointed out that Wget doesn't allow adding a request body to
>> GET requests, since both --post-data and --post-file automatically
>> switch to POST.  It would be nice to support the equivalent of curl's
>> --request option, which specifies a custom request method for HTTP.
>
> Personally, I'm not particularly keen on implementing or maintaining
> such a thing. I don't really see it as falling under Wget's general
> scope, which as I see it is to non-interactively fetch content that a
> user might consider as "web content", in a matter comparable to that
> used by typical interactive clients (mainly web browsers and ftp
> clients).

I am told that interactive clients issue GET requests with request
bodies when doing AJAX.  If that is indeed the case, supporting it in
Wget might be genuinely useful.