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

[Tim Rühsen]

Am Freitag, 8. März 2013 schrieb Ángel González:
> On 08/03/13 19:18, Darshit Shah wrote:
> > Okay gathering inputs from all the replies above., I think the best way to
> > move forward would be to implement a --method=<GET|POST|PUT|DELETE>
> > followed by --post-data or --post-file in case of POST and --put-data
> > --put-file in case of the PUT option.
> > In other cases wget expects the URL next.
> > The GET option is included only for completeness.
> >
> > Please do let me know if I'm missing something.
> 
> Even easier, just accept anything as method, and send that (changing to
> uppercase).
> 
> --post-data and --post-file would also work for put, but you may set --put-
data
> --put-file as aliases for niceness.

Why not more general options like
--data and --data-file ?

A --data-command could be implemented later, for directly sending the output 
of a command (STDIN is may be already used to read the URL(s) from). This 
could be handy, if you want several files/data being sent in one request, using 
multipart/form-data MIME encoding.

Regards, Tim