From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-07-01T07:47:58+09:00
Subject: Re: post_form not posting to full url

On 6/30/07, Pat Goebel <putterson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using Net::HTTP.post_form to post this form information:
> { "form_action" => "pet.do_fight", "mcid" => "9", "level" => "30",
> "type" => "fightmonster" }
> to this url:
> http://neo2.hotornot.com/facebook/pet/?fb_sig_in_iframe=1&fb_sig_time=1183152280.7875&fb_sig_user=502275480&fb_sig_profile_update_time=1182829280&fb_sig_session_key=4ca41050eb103deabc95c2c5-502275480&fb_sig_expires=0&fb_sig_api_key=692cc73d766279a46f0aaac1d104771e&fb_sig_added=1&fb_sig=c9a69599141dd3a1f4b81f46fc52ffb2&cpid=560252&msg=
> and while it should be posting to this url when I used a packet sniffer
> (because it was not working) it showed me that it was posting only to
> this url:
> http://neo2.hotornot.com/facebook/pet/
> it gives me a 404:
> <style>
> .msg404 {
>   font-family:Arial,sans-serif;
>   font-size:24px;
>   text-align:center;
> }
> </style>
> <div class="msg404">Sorry!  This page cannot be found</div>
> as well as giving me:
> #<Net::HTTPNotFound:0x2b65600>
> ...what am i doing wrong:
> -------------------
> require 'net/http'
> require 'uri'
> spooform = { "form_action" => "pet.do_fight", "mcid" => "9", "level" =>
> "30", "type" => "fightmonster" }
> fightit =
> "http://neo2.hotornot.com/facebook/pet/?fb_sig_in_iframe=1&fb_sig_time=1183152280.7875&fb_sig_user=502275480&fb_sig_profile_update_time=1182829280&fb_sig_session_key=4ca41050eb103deabc95c2c5-502275480&fb_sig_expires=0&fb_sig_api_key=692cc73d766279a46f0aaac1d104771e&fb_sig_added=1&fb_sig=c9a69599141dd3a1f4b81f46fc52ffb2&cpid=560252&msg="
> responce = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse(fightit),spooform)
> puts responce

this source for  post_form (copied from ruby-doc.org):

def HTTP.post_form(url, params)
      req = Post.new(url.path)
      req.form_data = params
      req.basic_auth url.user, url.password if url.user
      new(url.host, url.port).start {|http|
        http.request(req)
      }
end

You can see that it doesn't send Uri#query.

Try either joining the GET parameters with POST ones, and send them
all as POST params, or use Http#post and specify the path and query
string.

uri = URI.parse('http://...')
i.e. Http.open(uri.host) do |http|
  response = http.post(uri.path + '?' + uri.query, <uri-encoded
spooform data as string>)
end

you'd need to find out how to encode the form data.

Disclaimer: It's 1AM here, I have not tested anything, so take these
as ideas to investigate...

J.