From: Michael Witrant <mike@...>
Date: 2001-07-27T00:32:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18571] Re: Need example for Net::HTTP Post

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 23:44:40 +0900, rbovet@iname.com (Ray Bovet) wrote:

> As a complete newbie to ruby I thought I'd start out by writing a
> simple program to retrieve some information from an http server.  I
> found the description of Net::HTTP and the post routine in the
> appendix of the admirable Pickaxe book, but was unable to get it to
> work.  Is there a place to look for example code for such things?

Here is a small example:

require 'net/http'
require 'cgi'

h = Net::HTTP.new("localhost", 80)
resp, body = h.post("/cgi-bin/test_post",
                    "foo=" + CGI.escape("bar!") +
                    "&bar=" + CGI.escape("foo, foo & foo")
                    )


Mike.
midulo.