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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2017-02-23 16:58:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2017-02-23 16:58:21 +0100 |
| commit | ed74c6442d8f46cae448e8b90130d006eb6169f5 (patch) | |
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TODO: "OPTIONS *"
Closes #1280
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@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ 5.9 Improve formpost API 5.10 Leave secure cookies alone 5.11 Chunked transfer multipart formpost - + 5.12 OPTIONS * 6. TELNET 6.1 ditch stdin @@ -594,6 +594,23 @@ This is not detailed in any FTP specification. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1139 +5.12 OPTIONS * + + HTTP defines an OPTIONS method that can be sent with an asterisk option like + "OPTIONS *" to ask about options from the server and not a specific URL + resource. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-5.3.4 + + libcurl as it currently works will always sent HTTP methods with a path that + starts with a slash so there's no way for an application to send a proper + "OPTIONS *" using libcurl. This should be fixed. + + I can't think of any other non-slash paths we should support so it will + probably make sense to add a new boolean option for issuign an "OPTIONS *" + request. CURLOPT_OPTIONSASTERISK perhaps (and a corresponding command line + option)? + + See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1280 + 6. TELNET |