On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Roth, Kevin P. wrote:

> Wondering out loud: I'm thinking it would be nice to be able to use "-d"
> (or something similar) to attach parameters of EITHER the GET or POST
> type... It would either require another curl argument to specify "GET"
> (obviously the default should remain POST), or it would require a new
> curl argument (perhaps -G/--get-data).
>
> I know we're running out of letters, but it somehow feels a little
> "cleaner" to just tag on each of your HTTP "parameters" (data-items) one
> by one and let curl put them together, rather than having to put them
> together myself and include them in the URL.
>
> If no-one else agrees (or no-one else has time to make such a change),
> then forget I mentioned it ;-)

I think the idea is good and makes sense. It'll go into the TODO file.

It would of course only affect the client code, not libcurl.

-- 
     Daniel Stenberg -- curl dude -- http://curl.haxx.se/