From: Evan DiBiase <edibiase@...>
Date: 2005-11-12T07:43:44+09:00
Subject: Net::HTTP and POST Data

Hi!

Has anyone run into trouble using 1.8.3 (Cygwin, on Windows,  
specifically) and Net::HTTP's POST functionality?

It used to be that code like the following would pass the parameter  
"foo" with the value "bar" to "http://myserver/servlet", but, on the  
aforementioned configuration, the servlet (or PHP script; I've tested  
both) doesn't seem to get the parameter:

Net::HTTP.start("myserver", 80) { |http| http.post("/servlet",  
"foo=bar") }

Does anyone have a clue about what might be wrong? I'm using POST  
data (instead of URL encoding) because the server with which I'm  
communicating has hard limits on the URL size that I would exceed in  
a few cases.

Thanks,
Evan