Re: [Bug-wget] Request body in GET requests

[Micah Cowan]

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Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> A friend pointed out that Wget doesn't allow adding a request body to
> GET requests, since both --post-data and --post-file automatically
> switch to POST.  It would be nice to support the equivalent of curl's
> --request option, which specifies a custom request method for HTTP.

Personally, I'm not particularly keen on implementing or maintaining
such a thing. I don't really see it as falling under Wget's general
scope, which as I see it is to non-interactively fetch content that a
user might consider as "web content", in a matter comparable to that
used by typical interactive clients (mainly web browsers and ftp
clients). Isn't that why we haven't provided support for even official
HTTP methods such as OPTIONS, TRACE, PUT and DELETE?

Curl, on the other hand, isn't intended so much for fetching
specifically, as it is for "doing URLs", whatever that may entail, and
transferring data to a server is as important a goal for that project as
fetching data from one.

OTOH, if we do wind up at some point with a next-gen Wget that wraps
libcurl for its actual protocol-level work (an idea I still play with),
then it might be enough of a "low-hanging fruit" to support it.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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