From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2007-03-28T08:28:23+09:00
Subject: Re: http.post dropping trailing '}'

Wilson Chen wrote:
> I am making a call through http.post in Ruby 1.8.5.
> 
> uri = ...
> data = '{}'
> headers = ...
> http.post(uri, data, headers)
> 
> Everything seems to work except that the trailing '}' in data is not
> getting posted, as determined by the network analyzer WireShark.  My
> entire posted data is just '{'.  Is there some sort of sanitization or
> choping that I am unaware of?


you could either try String#dump to automagically create escape 
characters, or escape the {} yourself with a backslash.

I have no clue, though, if that is feasible in regard to the receiving end.

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