cURL PUT with data?

[Marcus]

Hey all,

I did research into Restlet at the beginning of this year and really liked 
it. It tought me a lot about REST in general, but my boss decided that for 
the mean time we would implement our REST services in PHP, and slowly 
migrate modules across to Java at a later date.

Regardless, I figured that this forum would be a good place to ask the 
following question:

I have encountered an issue with using cURL and issuing PUT HTTP requests to 
perform update REST calls. It seems as if you can only upload whole files 
using this method.

When using POST, data can be passed in. Unfortunately I seem to be left with 
no option other than to use a POST HTTP verb with a queryString flag saying 
something like 'reallyAPut=true' so that i can then retrieve the data and 
act on it in an 'update' way rather than a 'create' way.

Has anyone else noticed this 'problem' with cURL? How does Restlet handle 
this again (memory is fading now)?

Thanks guys,
Marcus.