From: Alex Ciarlillo <ac251404@...>
Date: 2006-11-30T05:09:51+09:00
Subject: Re: how to input info in fields on a HTTP page?

Okay I got some code working to login to the site Im interested in, but 
this led me to a new question. How can I keep this session alive once 
logged in? After login I need to follow a link on the page in order to 
start posting data to get my reports but I believe the connection is 
closing as soon as it posts the login data. I think this requires a 
stand alone http object which then processes each request but I havent 
had any luck getting this code to work like that. I was also thinking 
that I may need to make further requests inside the start block but that 
would depend on the case of 'res' so I didnt think that was the right 
track. Here is the code I have now, any input would be really 
appreciated.

<code>
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

url = URI.parse('http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/servlet/PortalLogIn/')

req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
req.set_form_data( {"command" => "login",
                    "cpny" => "xxx",
                    "usr"  => "xxx",
                    "pwd"  => "xxx" } )

res = Net::HTTP.new(url.host).start { |http| http.request(req) }

case res
when Net::HTTPSuccess, Net::HTTPRedirection
  puts "OKAY it worked!"
  puts res.body
else
  res.error!
end
</code>

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