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[mnh00]

Is there a way to "influence" roUrlTransfer to issue HTTP PUTs instead of GET/POST? In order to communicate with RESTful Web services you need all the HTTP verbs, but there's little else roUrlTransfer needs to do to handle them. One example usage: Apache and IIS allow via HTTP PUT to upload data without scripts on the other end.

[RokuKevin]

Yes. roUrlTransfer has several POST methods:
PostFromString()
PostFromFile()
AsyncPostFromString()
AsyncPostFromFile()

--Kevin

[kbenson]

"RokuKevin" wrote:
Yes. roUrlTransfer has several POST methods:
PostFromString()
PostFromFile()
AsyncPostFromString()
AsyncPostFromFile()

--Kevin

I think you missed his point. He's asking for an HTTP PUT command, as listed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_ ... st_methods

It makes sense to add DELETE at the same time as PUT, if it's added. Many API's that require PUT also require DELETE to be fully used.

[gonzotek]

"kbenson" wrote:

"RokuKevin" wrote:
Yes. roUrlTransfer has several POST methods:
PostFromString()
PostFromFile()
AsyncPostFromString()
AsyncPostFromFile()

--Kevin

I think you missed his point. He's asking for an HTTP PUT command, as listed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_ ... st_methods

It makes sense to add DELETE at the same time as PUT, if it's added. Many API's that require PUT also require DELETE to be fully used.

+1

[RokuKevin]

Thanks for the clarification. You are correct that there is not currently a way to do a PUT or DELETE.

--Kevin

[marcelo_cabral]

"RokuKevin" wrote:
Thanks for the clarification. You are correct that there is not currently a way to do a PUT or DELETE.

--Kevin

Hey Kevin,

Any plans to add these commands to the roUrlTransfer interface ? There are some APIs that uses that for important features.

[destruk]

After two years this should be split into its own thread.

[kbenson]

It's not ideal, but someone could write their own HTTP library with roStreamSocket. It wouldn't be hard, per-se, just time consuming. Pick your favortite HTTP client library implemented in a pure scripting language, and port.

As I said, not ideal, but at least now possible.

[EnTerr]

Reinventing the wheel will be outright silly, provided that there is nothing special about PUT and DELETE - trivial methods need to be added by Roku for compliance to RESTful calls.

[RokuJoel]

Feature Request Bug filed.

- Joel