From: Bach Le <beefandbachle@...>
Date: 2007-11-16T07:40:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Adding Post Data to IE.navigate method with Ruby

On Nov 15, 2:12 pm, Paul Rogers <pmr16...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Hi Paul,

Thanks for getting back to me. Seems like IE won't do a POST unless
that parameter is an array of some sort. If i simply place a string
such as "param1=value1&param2=value2" (which I think is what your code
is doing) it simply does a GET request and the data is discarded.

I think the issue is that the "navigate" method is expecting a byte
array but from what I can see, all the values in ruby are 32 bits
which is 4 bytes therefore I'm sending extra data.

I still don't know how to change the output from "each_byte" into 8
bits instead of a 32 bit integer to make this call work.

-Bach