Bug#680028: PUT

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:30:04 +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:

> Package: libwww-perl
> Version: 6.04-1
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /usr/share/man/man1/lwp-request.1p.gz
> 
> We see PUT here
> 
>   DESCRIPTION
>          This program can be used to send requests to WWW servers and your local
>          file system. The request content for POST and PUT methods is read
> 
> But not here
>   NAME
>          lwp-request, GET, POST, HEAD - Simple command line user agent
> Nor on the filesystem...
> 
> So maybe something should be adjusted...

I don't think so.

lwp-request knows several methods, [0] which can all be invoked as
    lwp-request -m FOO

For 3 of them (GET, POST, HEAD) of offers shortcuts via copies
(upstream) [1] or symlinks (Debian). So these three are in the NAME of
the POD, as the 4 manpages are the same (or sysmlinks).

There is, as you have mentioned, no PUT binary/symlink, so no need
for it to be mentioned in the NAME of the POD/manpage; and still
lwp-request can make PUT requests, and a few others.

Maybe that's confusing but I see no bug here and suggest to close
this ticket.


Cheers,
gregor


[0]
%allowed_methods = (
    GET        => "",
    HEAD       => "",
    POST       => "C",  
    PUT        => "C",
    DELETE     => "",
    TRACE      => "",
    OPTIONS    => "",
);

[1] Makefile.PL:
    for (qw(GET HEAD POST)) {
        File::Copy::copy("bin/lwp-request", "bin/$_") || die "Can't copy bin/$_";
        chmod(0755, "bin/$_");
        push(@prog, $_);
    }

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