From: Aaron Patterson <aaron_patterson@...>
Date: 2006-11-13T05:43:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Easy way to do a HTTPS POST?

On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 10:25:38AM +0900, Gabriele Marrone wrote:
> 
> On 11/nov/06, at 02:05, gregarican wrote:
> 
> >For a business banking app I needed to script out something that would
> >upload a PGP-encrypted text file through a HTTPS POST command. Since
> >Ruby is my language of choice for quick hitters like this I looked  
> >into
> >using it for the HTTPS POST part of the puzzle. After googling around
> >for awhile I didn't run across anything blatantly obvious as a
> >solution.
> >
> >I use the One-Click Installer for Windows version of Ruby 1.8.4 as my
> >primary development tool. I only saw 'net/http' and not 'net/https' as
> >valid choices...
> 
> Net::HTTP does the job.
> You can see examples on http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/ 
> http/rdoc/classes/Net/HTTP.html , I'm copypasting here the POST ones:
> 
>     require 'net/http'
>     require 'uri'
> 
>     #1: Simple POST
>     res = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse('http://www.example.com/ 
> search.cgi'),
>                               {'q'=>'ruby', 'max'=>'50'})
>     puts res.body
> 
>     #2: POST with basic authentication
>     res = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse('http:// 
> jack:pass@www.example.com/todo.cgi'),
>                                         {'from'=>'2005-01-01',  
> 'to'=>'2005-03-31'})
>     puts res.body
> 
>     #3: Detailed control
>     url = URI.parse('http://www.example.com/todo.cgi')
>     req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
>     req.basic_auth 'jack', 'pass'
>     req.set_form_data({'from'=>'2005-01-01', 'to'=>'2005-03-31'}, ';')
>     res = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port).start {|http|  
> http.request(req) }
>     case res
>     when Net::HTTPSuccess, Net::HTTPRedirection
>       # OK
>     else
>       res.error!
>     end
> 
> If you need HTTPS make sure to require 'net/https' and use something  
> like this:
> 
>     #3: Detailed control
>     url = URI.parse('http://www.example.com/todo.cgi')
>     req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
>     req.basic_auth 'jack', 'pass'
>     req.set_form_data({'from'=>'2005-01-01', 'to'=>'2005-03-31'}, ';')
>     http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)       #  lines
>     http.use_ssl = true                            # modified
>     res = http.start {|http| http.request(req) }   #  by me
>     case res
>     when Net::HTTPSuccess, Net::HTTPRedirection
>       # OK
>     else
>       res.error!
>     end
> 
> I didn't actually test this code but I think it should work.
> 
> By the way, it doesn't support cookies as far as I know.
> In fact I needed a library with which I could interact with a website  
> that needed a session id stored in a cookie (and not encoded within  
> the URL) and I wasn't able to find any. :(

Try Mechanize.  It will handle redirects and cookies for you.  It will
also post http/https forms.

  http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/

> 
> 
> --
> Gabriele Marrone
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/