How do I read an HTTP PUT from a controller?

Rails
1

I’ve googled around a little bit and havent found anything useful. :frowning:
Has anybody written a rails controller that accepts HTTP PUT (DAV)
requests?
If so, do you have any pointers?

Thanks,
Tyler

2

Rails can accept pretty much any HTTP request – just check the
request.method accessor. Rails provides a special test for put that
makes things really succinct.

def action
if request.put?
body = request.raw_post
# do something with body
else
redirect_to :action => “error”
end
end

On Mar 10, 12:34 pm, Tyler MacDonald [email protected]

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eden li [email protected] wrote:

end

end

Great, so this code works with some uploaders (like curl), but other
uploaders (like the one from upload.thinfile.com), which work with PHP,
give
me this error in ruby… (or just fail silently if I use CGI instead of
FastCGI)… any ideas?

You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occured while evaluating nil.include?
/var/www/public/…/config/…/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb:49:in
parse_request_parameters' /var/www/public/../config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb:47:in each’
/var/www/public/…/config/…/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb:47:in
parse_request_parameters' /var/www/public/../config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb:71:in request_parameters’
/var/www/public/…/config/…/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/request.rb:13:in
parameters' /var/www/public/../config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:122:in set_session_options_without_components’
/var/www/public/…/config/…/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/components.rb:178:in
set_session_options' /var/www/public/../config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:116:in process’
/var/www/public/…/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in
dispatch' /var/www/public/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:150:in process_request’
/var/www/public/…/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:54:in
process!' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:612:in each_cgi’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:609:in each' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:609:in each_cgi’
/var/www/public/…/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:53:in
/process!' /var/www/public/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:23:in /process!’
/var/www/public/dispatch.fcgi:26

Thanks,
Tyler

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eden li [email protected] wrote:

I remember running into this same exception when I sent raw XML with
ampersands to my rails 1.1.6 controllers. You’ll need to hand patch
that line by placing “next if key.nil? || key.empty?” before line 48
of vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/
cgi_methods.rb.

OR you could just upgrade to 1.2.2 – I think this has been fixed by
now.

Upgrading to 1.2.2 did indeed fix the problem! Thanks, eden!

Cheers,
Tyler

5

I remember running into this same exception when I sent raw XML with
ampersands to my rails 1.1.6 controllers. You’ll need to hand patch
that line by placing “next if key.nil? || key.empty?” before line 48
of vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/
cgi_methods.rb.

OR you could just upgrade to 1.2.2 – I think this has been fixed by
now.

On Mar 12, 5:27 am, Tyler MacDonald [email protected]