2. provide framework for custom curl request bodies using custom/non-standard request methods. This was a real nightmare because curl doesn't actually let you specify a string to send as the request body (except when doing POST). You have to treat it as a file upload using a custom file handler function which provides the actual content in chunks as if it were buffered I/O.
3. item_store and item_store_update now return the item that was stored
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