Micah Cowan <[email protected]> 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.
