On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 04:52:33 +1100 Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 4:45 AM <mus...@posteo.org> wrote: > > BTW, the canonical way to upload files via http is PUT, not POST. > > You might want to look into that, but here it is off-topic. > > Citation needed. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#page-55 > Plenty of file uploads are done through POST > requests. Of course. Both work. It's just that the OP wanted to "upload a large binary file" using curl and in such cases I find that PUT can make for a cleaner, simpler interface. > Are you talking specifically about a RESTful API? Because > that's only one of many patterns you can follow. Sure. It's just that people sometimes aren't even aware of http methods besides GET and POST, and there's a chance for the OP to investigate this and maybe to find that PUT fits his needs better than POST in this case. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
