How can I do a HTTP PUT with wget?

Question

I am trying to use wget to access a RESTful interface, but I can not figure out how to do HTTP PUT with wget. How can I do it? Or isn't it prossible?

Answer 1

wget can't do PUT. Use curl instead, with -T.

Answer 2

Since this is REST interface, I think you'd want to use curl with -X PUT, like this:

curl -i -X PUT http://www.example.tld/rest/updateEntity/1234?active=false

Or if you need to "post" data from a file, like an XML:

curl -i -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8" -d @"/tmp/some-file.xml" http://www.example.tld/rest/updateEntity

Answer 3

For me following worked:

curl -T <file-path> <url>

For some reason when I did following it nothing happened (no error as well):

curl -X PUT -d <file-path> <url>         (did not work)

Answer 4

If you dont want to use a file as data, you can do the following

curl -X PUT -d "something=blabla&somethingelse=blaha" http://www.example.com