which should overwrite the program reasonable defaults (plain/text,
8bit...) (Idea brough to us by kromJx)
+ * ability to specify the classic computing suffixes on the range
+ specifications. For example, to download the first 500 Kilobytes of a file,
+ be able to specify the following for the -r option: "-r 0-500K" or for the
+ first 2 Megabytes of a file: "-r 0-2M". (Mark Smith suggested)
+
* --data-encode that URL encodes the data before posting
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2003-11/0091.html (Kevin Roth suggested)