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?

Solution 1

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.

Solution 2

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

Solution 3

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

Solution 4

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)

Solution 5

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

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Comments

[quack quixote]

there's also a wput utility tho it seems limited to FTP.

[che]

-d will send the data you entered on the command line, so it will try to PUT file path as text.

[John Henry]

Wget can now do PUT using --method.

[Vanuan]

This should be accepted answer.

[Bernhard Döbler]

Should be accepted answer in 2014, 2016 or whenever. --method param wasn't avail in wget back in 2010 :(

[Dmitry Minkovsky]

Not in busy box

[Joe]

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.

[David V.]

--method still not available in centos 7.

[Ben]

Note only with GNU wget, not busybox wget.

[meustrus]

Can also do wget --method=PUT --body-file=<FILENAME> if your body is a file.