(ws curl) Add support for --data-binary option, to set the request body. When present the request will be sent with the POST verb

docs/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 All changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## [10.5.2] - 2020-10-12
+
+(ws curl) Add support for --data-binary option, to set the request body. When present the request will be sent with the POST verb
+
 ## [10.5.1] - 2020-10-09
 
 (http client + server + ws) Add support for compressing http client requests with gzip. --compress_request argument is used in ws to enable this. The Content-Encoding is set to gzip, and decoded on the server side if present.

ixwebsocket/IXHttpClient.cpp

@@ -588,7 +588,6 @@ namespace ix
         return request(url, verb, body, args);
     }
 
-
     HttpResponsePtr HttpClient::post(const std::string& url,
                                      const HttpParameters& httpParameters,
                                      const HttpFormDataParameters& httpFormDataParameters,

ixwebsocket/IXWebSocketVersion.h

@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 
 #pragma once
 
-#define IX_WEBSOCKET_VERSION "10.5.1"
+#define IX_WEBSOCKET_VERSION "10.5.2"

ws/ws.cpp

@@ -1531,6 +1531,7 @@ namespace ix
                             const std::string& headersData,
                             const std::string& data,
                             const std::string& formData,
+                            const std::string& dataBinary,
                             bool headersOnly,
                             int connectTimeout,
                             int transferTimeout,
@@ -1572,10 +1573,19 @@ namespace ix
         {
             response = httpClient.head(url, args);
         }
-        else if (data.empty() && formData.empty())
+        else if (data.empty() && formData.empty() && dataBinary.empty())
         {
             response = httpClient.get(url, args);
         }
+        else if (!dataBinary.empty())
+        {
+            std::string body = dataBinary;
+            if (compressRequest)
+            {
+                body = gzipCompress(dataBinary);
+            }
+            response = httpClient.request(url, "POST", body, args, 0);
+        }
         else
         {
             response = httpClient.post(url, httpParameters, httpFormDataParameters, args);
@@ -2981,6 +2991,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
     std::string user;
     std::string data;
     std::string formData;
+    std::string binaryData;
     std::string headers;
     std::string output;
     std::string hostname("127.0.0.1");
@@ -3193,6 +3204,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
     httpClientApp->add_option("url", url, "Connection url")->required();
     httpClientApp->add_option("-d", data, "Form data")->join();
     httpClientApp->add_option("-F", formData, "Form data")->join();
+    httpClientApp->add_option("--data-binary", binaryData, "Body binary data")->join();
     httpClientApp->add_option("-H", headers, "Header")->join();
     httpClientApp->add_option("--output", output, "Output file");
     httpClientApp->add_flag("-I", headersOnly, "Send a HEAD request");
@@ -3518,6 +3530,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
                                       headers,
                                       data,
                                       formData,
+                                      binaryData,
                                       headersOnly,
                                       connectTimeOut,
                                       transferTimeout,