From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2001-12-22T13:35:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29292] Re: HTTP POST

Chad Fowler <chadfowler@chadfowler.com> writes:

> 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.

Hmm...that could be. I will have to ask for the source; someone else
developed the servlet.

Thank you very much for all your help.

Jim
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