From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-10-10T23:26:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Posting over https

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On 10/10/06, Andrew Stewart <boss@airbladesoftware.com> wrote:
>
> Hello again,
>
> > fortytwo :/var/www/html > ruby post.rb https://fortytwo.merseine.nu/
> > form.cgi
> > ---
> > key1:
> > - value1
> > key2:
> > - value2
> > keyn:
> > - valuen
>
> Many thanks for the pointers to Mechanize, Hpricot and this fully-
> fledged code sample.  I do appreciate your taking the time to
> respond, and so quickly.
>
> Adapting my code in the light of Ara's code above, with
> 'self.set_debug_output $stderr' added to the HTTPS initialize method,
> I compared the client-server conversation with curl's, which I knew
> worked.  This led me to discover that the server expected the content-
> type header to be set to 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'.
>
> For the record, here's the code which works with the server I am
> talking to (Protx's payment gateway).  Now that I have it working,
> I'll take Aaron and Richard's advice and look into replacing it with
> higher-level code using Mechanize.
>
> require 'net/https'
> require 'uri'
>
> class HTTPS < Net::HTTP
>    def initialize *a, &b
>      super
>      self.use_ssl =3D true
>      self.verify_mode =3D OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
>      #self.set_debug_output $stderr
>    end
> end
>
> url =3D 'https://some.host.com/foo/bar.asp?service=3Dsomeservice'
> uri =3D URI.parse url
> data =3D {
>    'key1' =3D> 'value1',
>    'key2' =3D> 'value2',
>    'keyn' =3D> 'valuen'
> }
> e =3D lambda {|x| URI.escape x}
> q =3D lambda {|h| h.map {|k,v| [e[k], e[v]].join '=3D'}.join('&')}
> form =3D q[data]
> HTTPS.start(uri.host, uri.port) do |https|
>    response =3D https.post("#{uri.path}?#{uri.query}", form, {'content-
> type' =3D> 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'})
>    puts response.body
> end
>
> Regards,
> Andy Stewart
>
> Thanks for sharing this, I could not help you out as I lost my old POST
code, now I'll just adapt your's (thx Ara) :)
Robert


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