From: Fred <nospam@...>
Date: 2008-04-24T19:30:10+09:00
Subject: Re: HTTP::Post - HTTP::Get (Can someone help me?)

resp.body is a php page => purpose is to see of step 1 is working

7stud -- schreef:
 > What's in step 1's resp.body?  Is it html?  Do you want to extract a url
 > from that html and send a request to that url?


Fred schreef:
> Thanx Darren for the info
> 
> What i want to do:
> 
> Interact with a site and change behaviour without going to the site itself.
> 
> I have to do 2 steps.
> 
> 
> def connect
>     uri = URI.parse(BASE_ADDRESS)
>     HTTP.version_1_1
>     @http = HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port)
> end
> 
> 1. The first one succeed with
> 
> connect
> req = HTTP::Post.new("...")
> add_headers req, "......"
> res = @http.request(req)
> puts res.body
> @http.finish
> 
> When i look into res.body i see that the first step is good.
> 
> 2. Now the second step is to simulate a POST (submit button) from the 
> first step.
> 
> req = HTTP::Post.new("....")
> add_headers req, "...."
> connect
> res = @http.request(req)
> puts res.body
> @http.finish
> 
> When i look into res.body i see nothing.
> I also tried the connect before the req in the second step but it 
> changed nothing.
> 
> The second step has to change the first step ( activate the submit 
> button) but it doesn't work.
> 
> I hope you understand it a little bit.
> 
> Can someone help me with this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> darren kirby schreef:
>> quoth the Fred:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm lost.
>>> Can someone explain good to me what the difference is between these 2
>>> methods?
>>
>> 'GET' and 'POST' are two 'request methods' which are part of the HTTP 
>> spec. Your two methods are ruby implementations of such request 
>> methods. Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Http#Request_methods
>>
>> ..and you will see they are quite different.
>>
>>> I have a HTTP:Post and when i check the body, i see exacly what he has
>>> to do. But it doesn't do it in reality.
>>> How can i resolve the problem?
>>
>> I have no idea what you are getting at here. Please repost with:
>> * A clear description of what you want to accomplish
>> * How what you are doing now is failing (include error messages)
>> * Your failing code
>> * excerpt of your data causing a failure (if applicable)
>>
>> If you include all this, you will certainly recieve a more helpful 
>> response.
>>
>>> thank you
>>
>> -d