lib/PublicInbox/WwwAltId.pm | 4 ++--
 lib/PublicInbox/WwwText.pm  | 2 +-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/WwwAltId.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/WwwAltId.pm
index b90819a2d8a10bf3360facd5f341e65f698914cd..33e6da30daa3b4109c6df1b040851eb1d4f22ad5 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/WwwAltId.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/WwwAltId.pm
@@ -44,11 +44,11 @@ 		my $url = $ibx->base_url($ctx->{env}) . "$altid_pfx.sql.gz";
 		return html_oneshot($ctx, 405, \<<EOF);
 <pre>A POST request required to retrieve $altid_pfx.sql.gz
 
-	curl -XPOST -O $url
+	curl -d '' -O $url
 
 or
 
-	curl -XPOST $url | \\
+	curl -d '' $url | \\
 		gzip -dc | \\
 		sqlite3 /path/to/$altid_pfx.sqlite3
 </pre>
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/WwwText.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/WwwText.pm
index 817d032c7cfae925051766fd665c424bd9fd8942..9f46c6a603a7c495ee3fcae343185528fa97f4b6 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/WwwText.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/WwwText.pm
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ 	; old, pre-existing sources.  You can recreate them via curl(1),
 	; gzip(1), and sqlite3(1) as documented:
 EOF
 		for (sort keys %$altid_map) {
-			$$txt .= "\t;\tcurl -XPOST $base_url$_.sql.gz | \\\n" .
+			$$txt .= "\t;\tcurl -d '' $base_url$_.sql.gz | \\\n" .
 				"\t;\tgzip -dc | \\\n" .
 				"\t;\tsqlite3 $inboxdir/$_.sqlite3\n";
 			$$txt .= "\taltid = serial:$_:file=$_.sqlite3\n";