From: Enrique Comba Riepenhausen <ecomba@...>
Date: 2007-05-26T05:26:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP - POST and GET in the same request

On 25 May 2007, at 22:15, subsume@gmail.com wrote:

> I have a peculiar problem where I need to submit POST data to a script
> which has get variables (script.asp?variable=true)
>
> But Net:HTTP seems to have gone to great lengths to prevent this.
> Obviously, its messy and looked down upon but unfortunately I cannot
> control this.
>
> Running tests:
>
> body =
> Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse('http://www.server.net/post.php?x=y'),
> {'A'=>'1','B'=>'2','C' => '3'})
>
> puts body.body
>
> ---------
>
> Above, the POST variables are the only ones which hit the server.
> Apparently everything after the '?' is totally ignored. Please help!
>
> --  
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>

Try the following:

http = Net::HTTP.new('http://www.server.net')
response =  http.post('/post.php', 'x=y', {'A'=>'1','B'=>'2','C' =>  
'3'})

puts response.body

Hope it helps!

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Enrique Comba Riepenhausen
ecomba@mac.com

I always thought Smalltalk would beat Java, I just didn't know it  
would be called 'Ruby' when it did.
-- Kent Beck