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.

Hm, 1.8.3 has it:

17:02:52 [~]: ruby -r net/http -e 'p RUBY_VERSION; p
Net::HTTP.public_methods.grep /post/i'
-e:1: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
"1.8.3"
["post_form"]

This is on cygwin.  I wouldn't assume that post_form was removed in 1.8.2
and added in 1.8.3.  Are you sure the method is not present?  (You can
test with the same code snippet.)

Kind regards

    robert