From: Aaron Patterson <aaron_patterson@...>
Date: 2006-10-10T00:52:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Posting over https

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:04:26AM +0900, Andrew Stewart wrote:
> 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?

Try using Mechanize.  You can post forms over https with it, and you
won't have to deal with encoding query parameters or setting up
Net::HTTP.

  http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/

--Aaron

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Aaron Patterson
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