From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2001-12-22T13:35:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29290] Re: HTTP POST

Jim Menard wrote:

> Chad Fowler <chadfowler@chadfowler.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>
>>Can you also post the GET request that you send to the server?
>>
> 
> The GET request:
> 
>     GET /PingServer/Ping?PingRequestXML=[snipped]&action=[snipped] HTTP/1.1
>     Host: localhost
> 
> The reply:
> 
>     AARRGGHH! I don't receive what I expected.
> 
> I get no reply from a post(url, data). I get no reply from a get(url,
> data). I only get a reply from a post(url + "?" + data, nil). Doesn't that
> make the request a GET?
> 
> Jim
> 

It's only a GET if it sends "GET /PingServer....".  Do you have the 
source for this servlet?  Perhaps it's only got a doPost() method 
defined and it's reading its parameters directly from QUERY_STRING.

Chad