From: Ashkey <ashkey80@...>
Date: 2007-03-12T23:41:10+09:00
Subject: Fwd: Generating http post in Ruby

Hi, I'm in need to send a file throught an http post and examine the
response within a Rails project.
Net::HTTP is powerful but way too hard to use, I'm in need of
something slick and quick to use and manage.

Actually I've found Curb, which works like a charm (
http://rubyforge.org/projects/curb ) but it has a big problem: it
depends on external libraries (curlib) and doesn't work at all on win
(which is the platform used by most of our team).

What would really be a great tool is an high level libraries which
relies on Net::HTTP o similar, which allows me to achieve my results
with really compact statements.

Curb is really smart at this:

    c = Curl::Easy.new post_url
    c.multipart_form_post = true
    c.http_post(
      Curl::PostField.content('some_var_name', some_var_value),
      Curl::PostField.file('file_name', incomming_file.path)
    )
    puts c.body_str if c.response_code == 200

Is there any other similar library that can work on multiple platforms
--
Ashkey < Jules Piccotti