From: "A. S. Bradbury" <asbradbury@...>
Date: 2006-06-08T04:52:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Setting HTTP Headers

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 20:37, Dan Diebolt wrote:
> > ... It's really not documented too well there.
>
> Can open-uri do POSTs? I am pretty sure the answer is no but I would like a
> definitive answer from someone who is very familiar with open-uri.
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/open-uri/rdoc/
Documentation may be lacking in some areas, but you can rely on RDoc to at 
least generate a list of all public methods. I'm afraid OpenURI is 
read-only "for the moment"
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/open-uri/rdoc/classes/OpenURI/OpenRead.html#M000783

Wanting to do POST requests might be a good reason to use Net:HTTP open 
open-uri :)

Alex