From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-12-08T05:26:56+09:00
Subject: Re: HTTP POST request --> Ruby server

On 12/7/2010 2:20 PM, Chananya Freiman wrote:
> Alex Stahl wrote in post #966971:
>> Can't say I know a solution for you... but you might want to try using
>> Wireshark to check what's being sent.  FF dev tools, in my experience,
>> tend to be somewhat buggy and don't always accurately report what's
>> going on.  Wireshark will give you a much more exacting view as to
>> what's in the content-body of the POST request.
>>
>> Especially because this part sounds really odd and not at all reflective
>> of what's happening - "FireFox simply stops sending data" - FF doesn't
>> send a header, wait for a response, and then send the body, which is
>> what this implies.  Lest you somehow configured it to use HEAD instead
>> of POST.
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________
> 
> Well, it seems like everything is ok by what Wireshark sees, yet it 
> doesn't work.
> 
> I thought that maybe Ruby doesn't like printing whatever data it 
> received, for some reason, but just iterating over gets the thread 
> stuck.
> 
> This is just weird...

How are you iterating over the input?  Are you using each or each_line?
 This is just a complete guess, but the problem could be that your
iteration logic is waiting to see an end of line from the client.

-Jeremy