From f4e81953ce59731c3c46f7dc6937417851bd6e88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Turney <matthew.a.turney@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 16:07:05 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] provide a more general purpose request function

This allows for more flexibility in the future. Most importantly being
able to do more than just GET requests but any HTTP method. Specifically
needed for DELETE requests.
---
 acme.sh | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/acme.sh b/acme.sh
index 7ce947ea..3ccd8dc4 100755
--- a/acme.sh
+++ b/acme.sh
@@ -1592,12 +1592,17 @@ _post() {
   return $_ret
 }
 
-# url getheader timeout
 _get() {
-  _debug GET
+  _request "$1" "$2" "$3" GET
+}
+
+# url getheader timeout
+_request() {
   url="$1"
   onlyheader="$2"
   t="$3"
+  method="$4"
+  _debug method $method
   _debug url "$url"
   _debug "timeout" "$t"
 
@@ -1611,6 +1616,9 @@ _get() {
     if [ "$t" ]; then
       _CURL="$_CURL --connect-timeout $t"
     fi
+    if [ "$method" ]; then
+      _CURL="$_CURL -X $method"
+    fi
     _debug "_CURL" "$_CURL"
     if [ "$onlyheader" ]; then
       $_CURL -I --user-agent "$USER_AGENT" -H "$_H1" -H "$_H2" -H "$_H3" -H "$_H4" -H "$_H5" "$url"
@@ -1633,6 +1641,9 @@ _get() {
     if [ "$t" ]; then
       _WGET="$_WGET --timeout=$t"
     fi
+    if [ "$method" ]; then
+      _WGET="$_WGET --method=$method"
+    fi
     _debug "_WGET" "$_WGET"
     if [ "$onlyheader" ]; then
       $_WGET --user-agent="$USER_AGENT" --header "$_H5" --header "$_H4" --header "$_H3" --header "$_H2" --header "$_H1" -S -O /dev/null "$url" 2>&1 | sed 's/^[ ]*//g'