Re: [Bug-wget] wget post needs better docs

[Micah Cowan]

Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Hi Micah,
> 
> Thanks for the prompt reply, my comments below...
> 
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Note that --post-file is not for "attaching files" to a form post:
> 
> Now, that sounds like a good Request for Enhancement, doesn't it? :-))

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?20336  :)

> Well this is no big deal, I mean, I could probably stick the username
> and password at the beginning of the file.
> The crux of the matter here is if it would accept a file full of CR/LF
> chars.... or does it also expect the file to have the whole string on
> a single line??

I believe all CR/LF have to be percent-encoded, everything on one line.
It probably depends somewhat on the server.

>> Currently to post files, you have
>> to specify them as a regular name/value pair, and take care to
>> percent-encode the file contents (yuck!).
> 
> Is there any easy way to achieve this from shell? anything in gnu
> shellutils perhaps? bash?

Well, sed or perl wouldn't make it _too_ hard...

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