Posted by Rik Wasmus on 08/29/07 09:47

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:43:04 +0200, Gernot Frisch <Me@Privacy.net> wrote:
>> Virtually limitless. The bottleneck in using very long urls seem to
>> be the
>> ua's & http servers themselves, especially MSIE.
>> <http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/urllength.html>
>
> Oh! Much too short for me.
> Now, is there any way of using wget or some command line tool to write
> post data?

Writing post data is fairly easy, just write to the body of the request.
Even simply done in telnet and the like.

> If all fails, I could write a html file with a "submit"
> button, but that's no good idea.
>
> The background: I've written a game, where the users should be able to
> upload their created levels (ini file, about <2MB) from within the
> program. My programming language allows HTTP getting, but not with
> post data.

Which is weird...
--
Rik Wasmus

My new ISP's newsserver sucks. Anyone recommend a good one? Paying for
quality is certainly an option.

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