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

[Darshit Shah]

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 does not exist in the key:value format, assume that to be a
file path and try to read that file.
If the file does not exist, return an error.

The old --post-data and --post-file commands will be kept for backward
compatibility but marked deprecated.
Please let me know if anyone has any sort of objection to this.

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> wrote:

> Daniel Stenberg <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Ángel González wrote:
> >
> >>> wget --delete <URL pointing to resource that must be deleted>
> >
> >> I would prefer something like --method=delete, which would also
> >> allow other methods (eg. OPTIONS, TRACE, PROPFIND...)
> >
> > Which incidentally is how curl does it (just with a differently named
> option):
> >
> >  $ curl --request DELETE http://example.com/
>
> I agree here, it seems like the way to go.
>
> --
> Giuseppe
>
>


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