From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2006-06-23T00:22:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple post to IIS Server using net/http

Alex Young wrote:

> 
> Just a thought, but Windows can be a little bit funny when it comes to 
> ARGV.  It does separation differently to other shells.  It might be 
> worthwhile checking that ARGV[0] and ARGV[1] are actually what you think 
> they are on each platform...
> 

Very good point.  I develop on WinXP, and need to watch for how the 
shell interprets certain characters ('&' comes to mind) and the 
inclusion of newline characters.

Might be good to write some cleanser/sanity-check helper methods to 
manage input.

Even a simple logging of ARGV.inspect can be quite informative.




-- 
James Britt

"People want simple stories."