From: rvarghese@... (Roy Varghese)
Date: 2003-09-04T05:03:36+09:00
Subject: How do I POST a multipart request?

Hello

I am writing a script to send a POST request to a webserver.
The request consists of the following:

POST /someurl/servlets/SomeServlet

Host: myname
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US;
rv:1.3b)
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1
Accept-Encoding: none 
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 
Keep-Alive: 300 
Connection: close 
Referer: http://someserver/servlets/servlet1
Cookie: USERID=test
Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
boundary=---------------------------1896019318556346621028960807
Content-Length: 1380 

-----------------------------1896019318556346621028960807 
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="name" 

Roy
-----------------------------1896019318556346621028960807 
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="age" 

0 
-----------------------------1896019318556346621028960807 
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="address" 

12 Street
-----------------------------1896019318556346621028960807 

How can I use Ruby to send this request?
The Net::HTTP.post method takes only the POST path and a hash of the
headers, whereas some of the content of the request I have to send,
cannot be hashed.


Thx
Roy