From: Andrew Stewart <boss@...>
Date: 2006-10-10T00:04:26+09:00
Subject: Posting over https

Hello Rubyists,

I am struggling to post data over https and would be grateful for any  
help.

I know the server works because I can hit it with curl and get the  
response I expect:

curl -d <url-encoded form data> url

When I try to do the same from my Ruby code the server doesn't like it.

The URL to hit looks like:

https://some.host.com/foo/bar.asp?service=someservice

My code looks like:

   require 'net/https'
   require 'uri'

   url = <as above>
   uri = URI.parse(url)
   request = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
   request.use_ssl = true
   request.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
   data = { 'key1'     => 'value1',
            'key2'          => 'value2',
            'keyn'          => 'valuen' }.map {|k,v| "#{URI.escape 
(k.to_s)}=#{URI.escape(v.to_s)}"}.join('&')
   response = request.post("#{uri.path}?#{uri.query}", data)

When I tried this with curl, I used the value of data as my url- 
encoded form data and everything was fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Andy Stewart