How can I do a HTTP PUT with Wget?

Question

I am trying to use Wget to access a RESTful interface, but I can not figure out how to do HTTP PUT with Wget. How can I do it? Or isn't it prossible?

John Henry · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-10T19:06:58.193

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wget --method=PUT --body-data=<STRING>

This is a bit late, but at some point after the original post, they added a "--method" option. I'm not sure when it was added, but see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684189#24 for details.

edited Jul 10 '19 at 19:06

answered Oct 19 '14 at 17:42

John Henry

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This should be accepted answer. – Vanuan Oct 14 '16 at 02:17
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Should be accepted answer in 2014, 2016 or whenever. --method param wasn't avail in wget back in 2010 :( – Bernhard Döbler Nov 09 '16 at 13:09
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Not in busy box – Dmitry Minkovsky Jul 10 '17 at 21:04
Seems not working when using with authentication. I tried `wget --method=PUT` with digest access authentication but wget don't performs the authentication procedure like it do with standard GET request. – Joe Sep 22 '17 at 00:01
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--method still not available in centos 7. – David V. Jul 09 '19 at 11:15
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Note only with GNU wget, not busybox wget. – Ben Apr 03 '20 at 19:27
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Can also do `wget --method=PUT --body-file=` if your body is a file. – meustrus May 13 '20 at 20:26

score 26 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 02 '12 at 16:24

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Wget can't do PUT. Use cURL instead, with -T.

edited Aug 02 '12 at 16:24

Peter Mortensen

answered Apr 12 '10 at 08:11

there's also a [wput utility](http://wput.sourceforge.net/) tho it seems limited to FTP. – quack quixote Apr 12 '10 at 08:19
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Wget can now do PUT using --method. – John Henry Oct 19 '14 at 17:42

score 22 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 13 '10 at 22:57

Since this is REST interface, I think you'd want to use curl with -X PUT, like this:

curl -i -X PUT http://www.example.tld/rest/updateEntity/1234?active=false

Or if you need to "post" data from a file, like an XML:

curl -i -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8" -d @"/tmp/some-file.xml" http://www.example.tld/rest/updateEntity

score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 28 '11 at 22:40

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For me following worked:

curl -T <file-path> <url>

For some reason when I did following it nothing happened (no error as well):

curl -X PUT -d <file-path> <url>         (did not work)

answered Oct 28 '11 at 22:40

hznut

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`-d` will send the data you entered on the command line, so it will try to PUT file path as text. – che Jan 08 '13 at 16:51

score 4 · Answer 5 · edited Aug 02 '12 at 16:24

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If you don't want to use a file as data, you can do the following.

curl -X PUT -d "something=blabla&somethingelse=blaha" http://www.example.com

edited Aug 02 '12 at 16:24

Peter Mortensen

answered Jan 03 '12 at 16:51

fredrik

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