Re: Having file: support POST (and probably some other methods)

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 21:03, Jeff Macdonald <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was writing some tests for some code in which a URI can be passed as
> an option. This code POSTs to the URI. Instead of having the test
> create a local web server, I thought it would be nice if file URI's
> could be posted to. Is this a nutty idea? This way the test could just
> then read the data created at the specified file URI.
>
> Something like this:
>
> POST file:/some/path/data
>
> would cause all the posted data to show up in data.

I would be nutty to make the regular file protocol handler in LWP do
something with posted data.  There must be some way for the POST
end-point to define the semantics of this operation.  There is no
natural default.

If this is just for rigging a test, you could just set up you own
handling code with LWP::Protocol::implementor() and then use whatever
scheme name you want.

--Gisle