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

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Darshit Shah <address@hidden> writes:

>      please don't add these.  I don't think we would like to add a new
>      pair
>      of --FOO-data, --FOO-file for any method we will implement.  As
>      already
>      suggested by Hrvoje, just add --body-data and --body-file that are
>      synonyms for --post-data and --post-file; we can't drop these for
>      backward compatibility.
>
>    No. I won't. As suggested by Hrvoje, I plan on implementing as:
>    --method=POST:<data...>
>    --method=POST,file:<filename...>

what is the advantage over reusing --post-data and --post-file?

Giuseppe