Re: [Bug-wget] Syntax for RESTful scripting options

[Ángel González]

On 05/03/13 10:41, Darshit Shah wrote:
> I was addressing this feature request:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37055
>
> Which asks for an option to include the DELETE method in wget for RESTful
> scripting.
> Would the following syntax be the right way one would want to execute such
> a command?
>
> wget --delete <URL pointing to resource that must be deleted>
>
> Or should there be anything more?
I would prefer something like --method=delete, which would also allow other
methods (eg. OPTIONS, TRACE, PROPFIND...)

OTOH, delete has a clear mapping for also being implemented for ftp.