From 401564898df95945eb1216cd92586a712e70c5fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Stampar <miroslav.stampar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:43:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Adding support for 'empty' POST body (if forced by --method)

---
 lib/core/target.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/core/target.py b/lib/core/target.py
index 983d54541..cdfd538f0 100644
--- a/lib/core/target.py
+++ b/lib/core/target.py
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ def _setRequestParams():
 
     # Perform checks on POST parameters
     if conf.method == HTTPMETHOD.POST and conf.data is None:
-        errMsg = "HTTP POST method depends on HTTP data value to be posted"
-        raise SqlmapSyntaxException(errMsg)
+        logger.warn("detected empty POST body")
+        conf.data = ""
 
     if conf.data is not None:
         conf.method = HTTPMETHOD.POST if not conf.method or conf.method == HTTPMETHOD.GET else conf.method