On 9/12/07, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Curl on the other hand is better suited for http scripting where you are > trying to emulate the actions of a user, such as when submitting form > fields. Wget has the ability to do http POSTs but it only supports the > old "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" content encoding and not the > more sophisticated "multipart/form-data" encoding which allows for > things like file uploads. Curl supports both.
Curl is also great for examining protocol transactions for any of the supported protocols. Great tool for e.g. learning what webdav transactions actually look like. I wouldn't want to try to debug a networking application without it, that's for sure. -g -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
