From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-11-12T01:08:14+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

Seems the docs are wrong.  I had the same problem not too long ago.

Here's an example of what works for me:

require 'net/http'

# post some data to uri:port/page

uri = 'www.example.com'
port  = 80
page = '/RPC/foo'
data = '<foo><bar>Doodle!</bar></foo>'

Net::HTTP.start( uri, port) { |http|
   results = http.post( page, data )
}


James

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