From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-11-11T01:23:30+09:00
Subject: Re: post headers

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Daun Jaun wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is my first mail to this mailing list;
>
> It will be nice if any one can tell me how to post cookies to a url;
>
> I have done something like this
>
> hdr['cookies']=  "a_string_representation_of_all_the_cookies"
>
> # I am not sure about the above step because I havenot found any example which
> # posts headers along with cookies in Pragmatic..Ruby
>
> h=Net::HTTP.new('www.isical.ac.in',80)
> resp,data=h.post(path,query,hdr)
>
> But i am getting error page from the server;
> It says "parameter format error"
>
> Is there any library routine for converting array of cookies to format
> that post is expecting

perhaps

   harp:~ > irb -r cgi
   irb(main):001:0> c=CGI::Cookie.new("rubyweb", "CustID=123", "Part=ABC")
   => ["CustID=123", "Part=ABC"]

   irb(main):002:0> c.to_s
   => "rubyweb=CustID%3D123&Part%3DABC; path="


without you posting the complete code it's hard to say more than this.  are you
able to post the code, distilled to show the problem?

cheers.


-a
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