From: Park Heesob <phasis68@...>
Date: 2006-03-03T11:21:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP working on Windows, but not Unix



Hi,

>From: James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
>Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
>To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
>Subject: Re: Net::HTTP working on Windows, but not Unix
>Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 09:35:13 +0900
>
>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
This will work :

p http.post(uri.path, "UMkey=OUR_KEY_CODE_HERE",{'Content-Type' => 
'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}).body

>>>
>>
>>Switching the code to the following seems to work everywhere, as  long as 
>>1.8.4 is used:
...
>>
>>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...
>
There must be a bug in 1.8.4 Net::HTTP post.
I suspect  lib/net/http.rb line #1507

      unless content_type()
        warn 'net/http: warning: Content-Type did not set; using 
application/x-www-form-urlencoded' if $VERBOSE
        set_content_type 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
      end

Regards,

Park Heesob