From: Peer Allan <peer@...>
Date: 2007-05-25T02:21:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with Net/HTTP

Thanks Brian,

That gave me somewhere to do, but I failed to mention that the web 
service requires an SSL connection so everything in the dump is 
encrypted.  Nuts!  Not sure what to do now.  I may try to generate the 
request on my own.

Thanks

Peer

Brian Candler wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 01:21:04AM +0900, Peer Allan wrote:
>> I am running into a serious problem with a custom library I am building
>> in Ruby.  Basically I am writing a Ruby interface to a custom web
>> service that we have here at our company.  The problem I am running into
>> is that I am posting the XML document to the service and it is
>> responding, but net/http is telling me there is no body
>> (response.body.empty? => true).
> 
> Can you prove the response is there? The best way to do this is
> 
>     tcpdump -i eth0 -n -s0 -A tcp port 80
> 
> and look at the raw IP packets being sent by Ruby, and the response 
> coming
> back.
> 
> If you are on Windoze, then a sniffer like wireshark will do the trick.
> 
>> I can't even find a way to see the raw response the
>> net/http received so I can check to see if it is just parsing it
>> incorrectly.
> 
> There are two possible cases: Ruby is sending the request differently to
> PHP, or Ruby is parsing the response differently. Using tcpdump you 
> should
> be able to find out (and compare what PHP is sending with what Ruby is
> sending)
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Brian.


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