From: jrb3@...
Date: 2003-12-09T10:29:56+09:00
Subject: Testing web application, need assistance ...

Hi all!

    I'm trying to test a web application using standard Ruby Net::HTTP,
thought you could help.

    The application server I'm testing provides a multi-stage reply to a
POST (not multi-part).  All stages but the last are full pages, with a
simple META tag forcing a refresh to itself after a short interval; 
the last stage is the intended full-page reply.  The relevant header
element is
----
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="1" />
----

    My sense, on reading net/http.rb and the HTTP RFC, is that if I tried
to repeat the Net::HTTP.post(), this would start a new POST instead of
getting the next stage.

    Has anyone successfully dealt with programmatically getting that last
stage's reply?  As an added bonus, has anyone captured the
intermediate pages as well for later perusal?

    Thanks in advance for any insights.

        Joseph Beckenbach
        lead XP tester, Eidogen Inc.
        http://acceptor.tigris.org/