Wget and curl to post data

Shell Programming and Scripting
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i'm using this command to post data to a remote host:

wget --post-data="My Data" http://<my-ip>:80 -O /dev/null -q

and

curl --data "My Data" http://<my-ip>:80

however, when i run the above, i see the following in my access log on the remote host:

Wget:

10.10.10.10 - - [12/Oct/2016:19:38:34 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.0" 200 1085 "-" "Wget/1.11.4 Red Hat modified"

Curl:

10.10.10.10 - - [12/Oct/2016:19:45:53 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 1106 "-" "curl/7.15.5 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5"

how can i change the data that is bolded? I want "My Data" to appear where the bolded is.

i'd like to do this with both wget and curl.

is this possible?

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You can't. The log is showing how you connected (HTTP 1.1) and what you did (POST), not the data you sent.

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