Christian, Thanks. I believe I can add in headers with the curl command line client. I'll try that and see if it works better. Since PUT support is very client specific, this would certainly work for me.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:48 AM, Christian Grothoff <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Jordan, > > While MHD does not behave differently between PUT and POST, it is > possible that the HTTP client changes the encoding of the upload. > With CURL, I suspect --upload-file you get the file directly without > encoding, while with --form you get it in one of the encodings suitable > for MHD's post processor. > > Thus, in this case, you might need to check what the HTTP headers say > about how the data was encoded and either use the MHD post processor > or process the file data directly from the upload_data field. > > The fact that PUT/POST _could_ use the same content encodings does not > mean that clients are likely to do that ;-). > > Happy hacking! > > Christian > > On 03/02/14 19:55, Jordan Henderson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm playing with a REST framework. I've not been able to get PUT > > requests to work as I would expect them to. I think I have had some > > luck with PUT in earlier tests I performed, but I didn't save that code. > > > > I would expect to be able to use PUT and POST interchangeably, as the > > documentation and this message suggests: > > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libmicrohttpd/2012-08/msg00022.html > > > > The attached code is tested with curl commands: > > > > curl --upload-file uploadfile http://localhost:8080/FILE/foo.dat # PUT > test > > > > curl --form upload=@uploadfile http://localhost:8080/FILE/foo.dat # > > POST test > > > > I'm seeing the print statements in the post_interator() routine executed > > for the POST request but not for the PUT request. > > > > > > > > -- > > ----Jordan Henderson > > > > "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And > > I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." > > - Jack Handey > > -- ----Jordan Henderson "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." - Jack Handey
