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

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Darshit Shah <address@hidden> writes:

> Taking this forward. I figured it would be best to merge --post-data and 
> --post-file commands into --method=HTTPMethod
>
> I intend to use the following logic in merging them:
>
> wget --method=POST [data/file] URL

If a method (like OPTIONS) includes an entity-body then the data can be
still passed trough --post-data or --post-file.

I don't really like the idea of an argument that can have different
meanings according to its content, in this case presence or not of ':'.

What would be the advantage of dropping them?

-- 
Giuseppe