From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-11-12T01:07:14+09:00
Subject: Re: net/http broken?

tsuraan wrote:
> The documentation for net/http on ruby-doc.org gives the following
> snippet for getting data from a server using HTTP POST:
> 
>     require 'net/http'
>     require 'uri'
> 
>     res =
>                              
>    
> Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse('http://www.example.com/search.cgi'),
> {'q'=>'ruby', 'max'=>'50'}) puts res.body  
> 
> The problem with this is that in ruby 1.8.2 on both my OSX box and my
> FreeBSD computer, Net::HTTP does not have a post_form defined.  So,
> that example doesn't work.  Another way of doing the same idea, given
> by ruby-doc.org, is:
> 
>     url = URI.parse('http://www.example.com/todo.cgi')
>     req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
>     req.set_form_data({'from'=>'2005-01-01', 'to'=>'2005-03-31'}, ';')
>     res = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port).start { http.request(req)
>     } case res
>     when Net::HTTPSuccess, Net::HTTPRedirection
>       # OK
>     else
>       res.error!
>     end
> 
> This has the problem that req has no set_form_data method.  So, does
> anyone know what's going wrong?  Is it possible to use the ruby
> standard libraries to post data to a server?