GET/POST vs dog

Posted by Nico Golde in software
Tuesday, February 21. 2006

Qbi wrote about Dog which is also able to fetch http and ftp content. Here I want to point you also to libwww-perl (on debian) which includes a GET command which does pretty much the same.

But the cool thing is that there also a POST command which allows you to use the POST method of http.

UPDATE: dog site seems to be unavailable, use google cache version.

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I don't like the idea of 'dog' too much as it IMO violates the 'do one thing and do it well' philosophy that most of the UN*X tools have.

#1 Tobias Klauser on 2006-02-22 08:04 (Reply)

Yes I also don't like it. But there are too much people that don't give a shit on UNIX philosophy. Its also an easy thing to provide all functionality dog gives with other existing tools.

#2 nion (Homepage) on 2006-02-22 08:58 (Reply)

I would dare to say every Unix kernel violates that philosophy. The funny thing about dog is that even cat is considered bloated:
http://gaul.org/files/cat_-v_considered_harmful.html

How often do you use cat with any options at all?

#3 Anonymous on 2006-02-26 15:40 (Reply)

Hehe, I dont use cat

#4 nion (Homepage) on 2006-02-26 16:11 (Reply)

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