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

[Daniel Stenberg]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Micah Cowan wrote:

> > 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.

Just note that very very few "file uploads" over HTTP are done that way. The 
typical way is to do multipart formposts (RFC1867), and they don't use 
percent-encoding at all...

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