From: 7stud -- <dolgun@...>
Date: 2007-10-08T01:50:31+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie... be gentle

Bea Martin wrote:
> I am trying to access the US Postal Service web tool for tracking. I am
> new to Ruby and web programming in general so if this is a really stupid
> question I apologize in advance.
> 
> According to their site the if I access the test server with:
> http://testing.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPITest.dll?API=TrackV2&XML=<TrackFieldRequest
> USERID="xxxxxxxxxxxx"><TrackID
> ID="xxxxxxxxxxxxx"></TrackID></TrackFieldRequest>
> 

For one thing, that's a 'get' request, which means all the data you are 
transmitting is tacked onto the end of the url.  While this:

>       response = http.request_post(@path, request_body)
>     end
> 

is a 'post' request, which means the data is not tacked onto the end of 
the url, and it is sent by other means.  However, if a program on the 
server is expecting the data to be attached to the end of the url, 
that's where it is going to look for it.



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