Am 31-08-2015 17:57, schrieb Alex Bligh:
> On 31 Aug 2015, at 16:40, Aleksandar Lazic <al-curlusers_at_none.at>
> wrote:
>
>> Just for my curiosity.
>>
>> Why don't using
>>
>> -G
>>
>> http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html
>>
>> ###########
>> -G, --get
>
> It's autogenerated documentation which is designed to be easy to read,
> not to generate the shortest possible commandline. People may well use
> curl
> for testing, but the point is that the resultant command-line is
> readable for
> someone reimplementing in python, php, java, whatever. So '-X GET' says
> a
> 'get' request more obviously than '-G'.
>
> Also there are no equivalent flags for POST, DELETE or PUT, so these
> would always have to be '-X <method>' (ignoring where POST is implied
> by default for the minute).

Ah okay.
Thank you for the explanation.

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Received on 2015-08-31