Darshit Shah writes:
> Okay, I just checked. The man page clearly states:
>
>> In particular, they *both *expect content of the form
>> "key1=value1&key2=value2"
Good point. The man page should be changed make it clear that it's the
*server* that expects such post data when processing HTML form
Okay, these are certain points that do not come instantly to me.
However, I never intended to break these. The above functionality would
remain for backward compatibility with old scripts.
I am simply debating on how to implement this as a new feature.
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Steven M. Sc
> Also, is the --post-file command really needed? Even if one does really
> need to use POST data from a file, one could always cat the file inside
> backticks as:
>
> > wget --options=POST `cat POSTdata` URL
> >
>
> Why not go with that?
Apparently "always" means something to you which is di
Okay, I just checked. The man page clearly states:
> In particular, they *both *expect content of the form
> "key1=value1&key2=value2"
>
However, in a practical use case, wget performs no such checks and will
send any data you provide it with.
So then how to unify --post-data and --post-file in
Daniel Stenberg writes:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Darshit Shah wrote:
>
>> The only reason I said that is, even currently wget only accepts
>> post data in a key=value format.*
>
> Oh wow.
The above claim is patently false. Wget doesn't care about the format
of --post-data or the contents of --post
Darshit Shah 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 only reason I said that is, even currently wget only accepts post data
in a key=value format.*
*sorry it's not key:value but key=value.
On Mar 7, 2013 12:12 AM, "Daniel Stenberg" wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Darshit Shah wrote:
>
> I intend to use the following logic in merging them:
>>
>>
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Darshit Shah wrote:
The only reason I said that is, even currently wget only accepts post data
in a key=value format.*
Oh wow.
I guess it proves I never use this feature with wget - no big surprise there
probably. But I consider that to be a terrible limitation as well, a
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 tr
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
The text immediately following --method=POST is first assumed to be data.
If however it d
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