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?
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wget --method=PUT --body-data=<STRING>
This is a bit late, but at some point after the original post, they added a "--method" option. I'm not sure when it was added, but see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684189 for details.
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2Should be accepted answer in 2014, 2016 or whenever. --method param wasn't avail in wget back in 2010 :( – Bernhard Döbler Nov 9 '16 at 13:09
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Seems not working when using with authentication. I tried
wget --method=PUTwith digest access authentication but wget don't performs the authentication procedure like it do with standard GET request. – Joe Sep 22 '17 at 0:01
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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
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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)
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-dwill send the data you entered on the command line, so it will try to PUT file path as text. – che Jan 8 '13 at 16:51
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If you don't want to use a file as data, you can do the following.
curl -X PUT -d "something=blabla&somethingelse=blaha" http://www.example.com
