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

[Daniel Stenberg]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Darshit Shah wrote:

> I intend to use the following logic in merging them:
>
> wget --method=POST [data/file] URL
>
> The text immediately following --method=POST is first assumed to be data. If 
> however it does not exist in the key:value format, assume that to be a file 
> path and try to read that file. If the file does not exist, return an error.

To me, that sounds like the wrong path to go.

You can send whatever you want in a post, there's no magic "key:value format" 
in HTTP. What if you want to just send the string "/dev/null" in the POST? It 
is not key:value and it is an existing file path...

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