From: Paul Rogers <pmr16366@...>
Date: 2007-11-16T07:15:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Adding Post Data to IE.navigate method with Ruby

On Nov 15, 11:40 am, Bach Le <beefandbac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm automating IE with Watir and Ruby and I have a slight problem that
> I can't seem to solve. I'd like to pass post data to IE's navigate
> method (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752093.aspx)
>
> Seems like the postdata parameter is a byte array so here's what I've
> done in ruby to try to pass this data
>
>       bytearray = []
>       postdata.each_byte{ |c| bytearray.push(c) }
>       @ie.navigate(url, nil, nil, bytearray, "Content-Type:
> application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n")
>
> Fiddler seems to always say that the content length is 16 times longer
> than the actual length and I'm not sure why. Does anyone know how make
> this call work? TIA.
>
> -Bach

post data is usually hash like, so maybe this is what you need
( untested )
data = {}
data["name"]=>'paul'
data["url"]=> 'www.google.com'

post_data = []
data.each_pair do |k,v|
  post_data << "#{k}=#{v}"
end
  @ie.navigate(url, nil, nil, post_data.join("&"), "Content-Type:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n")

You'll probably have to url encode the data too though

Paul