From: Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...>
Date: 2006-01-23T23:32:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP post

On 1/22/06, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
> Mark Volkmann wrote:
> > Can someone point me to an example of sending a POST request using Net::HTTP?
> >
> > I found one at http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/classes/Net/HTTP.html,
> > but this use the method post_data which, when I look at the source in
> > http.rb, is not a method of Net::HTTP. Maybe it's outdated
> > documentation.
>
> What is your version of Ruby?

It's 1.8.2 and I'm running under XP.

I think my problem is that I need to pass a String as the second
parameter to HTTP.post. I don't know how to format it though. Should
it look like this?

"name1=value1&name2=value2"

This format isn't working for me.

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R. Mark Volkmann
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