From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-03-03T09:35:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP working on Windows, but not Unix

On Mar 2, 2006, at 4:00 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Mar 2, 2006, at 2:03 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>
>> We have an odd problem at work today.
>>
>> Running the following code on Windows XP gives us a CVV2 error,  
>> which is what we expect (we didn't give one).  However, running  
>> the same code on Linux or OS X gets a complaint that we didn't  
>> provide the key, which is obviously not true (see last line).
>>
>> Does anyone see anything inherently non-portable in the following  
>> code?
>>
>>   require 'net/http'
>>   require 'net/https'
>>
>>   uri  = URI.parse 'https://www.usaepay.com/gate.php'
>>   p (http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port))
>>   p http.use_ssl     = true
>>   p http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
>>   p http.post(uri.path, "UMkey=OUR_KEY_CODE_HERE").body
>>
>
> Switching the code to the following seems to work everywhere, as  
> long as 1.8.4 is used:
>
>   require 'net/https'
>
>   uri  = URI.parse 'https://www.usaepay.com/gate.php'
>   req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
>   req.set_form_data "UMkey" => "OUR_KEY_CODE_HERE"
>   p (http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port))
>   p http.use_ssl	   = true
>   p http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
>   p http.start { http.request(req) }.body
>
> I still don't understand why the first version didn't work though...

Sorry to keep responding to myself but we have now realized that that  
the Windows machine, where the top example originally worked, was  
running 1.8.2 while both failing machines were running 1.8.4.

The bottom "fix" did not work on the Windows box right off the bat,  
because set_form_data() seems to have been added after 1.8.2.   
Upgrading fixes the issue.

That raises the question of what caused the original failure though.   
Was the handling of the second parameter to post() changed between  
1.8.2 and 1.8.4?  If so, I suspect there could be some more broken  
code out there...

James Edward Gray II