From 736b0f25003c92b3903798ce0a768230480d8f4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karen Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:11:37 +0300
Subject: Fix curl constructor for nullfd input for HTTP POST method

---
 libbutl/curl.cxx | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'libbutl')

diff --git a/libbutl/curl.cxx b/libbutl/curl.cxx
index 7efd28d..5649965 100644
--- a/libbutl/curl.cxx
+++ b/libbutl/curl.cxx
@@ -21,9 +21,20 @@ namespace butl
     {
     case ftp_put:
       throw invalid_argument ("no input specified for PUT method");
+    case http_post:
+      {
+        // Post the empty data.
+        //
+        // Note that while it's tempting to specify the --request POST option
+        // instead, that can potentially overwrite the request methods for the
+        // HTTP 30X response code redirects.
+        //
+        d.options.push_back ("--data-raw");
+        d.options.push_back ("");
+      }
+      // Fall through.
     case ftp_get:
     case http_get:
-    case http_post:
       {
         d.pipe.in = fdopen_null (); // /dev/null
         return pipe (d.pipe);
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