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micha / resty

Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines (bash or zsh).
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Allowing PUT / POST without request body data #13

Closed rgulewich closed 13 years ago

rgulewich commented 13 years ago

I often find myself doing a PUT or a POST only specifying options - not specifying request body data at all. This patch will only read from stdin if it's a pipe.

This does break the ability to just type in data when doing a POST, so maybe you're not okay with that. If that's the case, this this could maybe be an option to PUT or POST?

micha commented 13 years ago

Hmm. I like it. The existing behavior isn't very convenient if you're POSTing with null data a lot. And I don't think your changes will be a big deal for people. After all, if you want to just type the data in when doing a POST you can always do something like 

cat | POST /Test

which is fine as far as I'm concerned. I think I'll merge you in and if anyone complains we can rethink how to fix it. Thanks!