From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2003-09-11T00:38:59+09:00
Subject: posting multipart form through http.rb

In order to post multipart/form-data, I've got to build data like:

    Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
    boundary=---------------------------12199339629315
    Content-Length: 402

    -----------------------------12199339629315
    Content-Disposition: form-data; name="upfile"; filename="test.txt"
    Content-Type: text/plain

    [snip ... file data]

    -----------------------------12199339629315--

I do this, then do the following with http.rb:

      # data equals the above stuff
      # @h is my http object
      req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(get_url)
      resp = @h.request(req, data)


In this case, http.rb seems to get in the way. Way down under the 
@h.request call we come to this:

    def send_request_with_body( sock, ver, path, body )
      @header['content-length'] = body.length.to_s
      @header.delete 'transfer-encoding'

      unless @header['content-type']
        $stderr.puts 'net/http: warning: Content-Type did not set; ... 
[snip]
        @header['content-type'] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
      end

      request sock, ver, path
      sock.write body
    end

So, now I'm sending the following packets to the web server:

    POST /my.cgi.rb HTTP/1.1
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    Authorization: Basic cnNxbDpkZyBkdWxsIGFncmVlIG5vb2sgaHVuaw==
    Content-Length: 514
    Host: iisportaldev01

    Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
    boundary=---------------------------12199339629315
    Content-Length: 402
    [snip]

http.rb is unfortunately assuming I need Content-Type and Content-Length 
headers added, even though I'm taking care of them myself in my data. 
I'm not seeing a way to tell http.rb to stop with the "Content-" headers 
as it appears to be messing things up.

-- 

Chris
http://clabs.org/blogki