From be3492776b4b7e90425a02e0b68ffa3dd05e3fd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 10:09:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [downloader:http] support using a different method than GET
 (#2433)

by setting the '_http_method' metadata field for a file
---
 gallery_dl/downloader/http.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gallery_dl/downloader/http.py b/gallery_dl/downloader/http.py
index b878f5f4..86338f80 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/downloader/http.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/downloader/http.py
@@ -120,9 +120,9 @@ class HttpDownloader(DownloaderBase):
             # connect to (remote) source
             try:
                 response = self.session.request(
-                    "GET", url, stream=True, headers=headers,
-                    timeout=self.timeout, verify=self.verify,
-                    proxies=self.proxies)
+                    kwdict.get("_http_method", "GET"), url,
+                    stream=True, headers=headers, timeout=self.timeout,
+                    verify=self.verify, proxies=self.proxies)
             except (ConnectionError, Timeout) as exc:
                 msg = str(exc)
                 continue