From: Adam Keys <adam@...>
Date: 2006-02-25T02:31:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP and submitting forms

On Feb 23, 2006, at 5:13 PM, charlie bowman wrote:
> I have a little snippet of code I wrote but it doesn't go to the  
> correct
> page.  The script pulls the data off of index.php but not
> index.php?pid=fact&person=chuck.  What am I doing wrong?
>
> require 'net/http'
> res = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse('http://www.4q.cc/index.php'),
>                                   {'pid'=>'fact', 'person'=>'chuck'})
> puts res.body

#post_form will put the parameters you pass in the request body.  If  
your PHP script doesn't care about GET or POST, you could make the  
request like any other GET, appending ?pid=fact&person=chuck to your  
URL.

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~akk
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