From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-03-15T05:44:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTML#post_form with ASP

On Mar 14, 2006, at 1:09 PM, |MKSM| wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to use Net::HTML.post_form to POST to a .asp file.
>
> 	url = URI.parse("http://www.ascca.com/findashop/findashopdetail.asp")
> 	res = Poster.post_form(url, { "id" => '1' } )
> 	puts res.body
>
> This does not work with ASP pages but works fine with other pages.
>
> Here's the error i get:
>
> [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Syntax error (missing
> operator) in query expression '[ID]='.
>
> I believe it has something to do with it being urlencoded, but i'm not
> exactly sure.
>
> Any ideas?

I think you are running into this:

http://ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/182324

I suspect the fix in that thread will get you going again.

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II