From: Dan Tenenbaum <dandante@...>
Date: 2006-03-10T09:06:42+09:00
Subject: Net::HTTP.post_form missing method error

I had some code that used to work and now all of a sudden it stopped 
working. Here is the minimal code to illustrate the problem:

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
parms = {:client=>"safari", :rls=>"en", :q => "myquery",
  :ie => "UTF-8", :oe => "UTF-8"}
url = "http://www.google.com/search"

res = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse(url), parms)

print res.body
print

The code fails with this error:
./foo.rb:8: undefined method `post_form' for Net::HTTP:Class 
(NoMethodError)

However, my code is almost identical to the example at:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/classes/Net/HTTP.html#M001204

...which presumably should work.

This is on a mac. I tried it on a windows box and it failed with the 
same error. I tried it on a linux box and it worked (the request format 
isn't quite right, but *something* came back from the server and was 
printed out, so for the purposes of this post, it "works").

Anyone have any ideas as to why? Apparently I have the Net::HTTP class 
but it doesn't have the post_form method in it....anymore....

Hope someone can help.

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