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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 14, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-html-post-form-with-asp/54846 "2006-03-14T20:11:07Z")\
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**Author:**  [@SSMKSM](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSMKSM)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-html-post-form-with-asp/54846/1 "2006-03-14T20:11:07Z")
Hello,
I’ve been trying to use Net::HTML.post\_form to POST to a .asp file.
```
url = URI.parse("http://www.ascca.com/findashop/findashopdetail.asp")
res = Poster.post_form(url, { "id" => '1' } )
puts res.body
```
This does not work with ASP pages but works fine with other pages.
Here’s the error i get:
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Syntax error (missing
operator) in query expression ‘[ID]=’.
I believe it has something to do with it being urlencoded, but i’m not
exactly sure.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ricardo Amorim
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**Author:**  [@SSMKSM](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSMKSM)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-html-post-form-with-asp/54846/2 "2006-03-14T20:14:08Z")
Just a note: The Poster class is a Net::HTTP subclass. I was using it
to test the code. You could just use Net::HTTP instead.
Regards,
Ricardo
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**Author:**  [@SSMKSM](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSMKSM)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-html-post-form-with-asp/54846/3 "2006-03-14T21:47:34Z")
On Mar 14, 2006, at 1:09 PM, |MKSM| wrote:
> Here’s the error i get:
>
> [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Syntax error (missing
> operator) in query expression ‘[ID]=’.
>
> I believe it has something to do with it being urlencoded, but i’m not
> exactly sure.
>
> Any ideas?
I think you are running into this:
[http://ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/182324](http://ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/182324)
I suspect the fix in that thread will get you going again.
Hope that helps.
James Edward G. II
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**Author:**  [@SSMKSM](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSMKSM)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-html-post-form-with-asp/54846/4 "2006-03-14T22:16:15Z")
Hello,
The fix did not work.I still get the same error. There is some bug here.
I’ve tested an app i coded last month and it still works:
url = URI.parse(“[http://translate.google.com/translate\_t](http://translate.google.com/translate_t)”)
g\_res = Net::HTTP::post\_form(url, { ‘text’ =\> “#{string}”, ‘langpair’
=\> “#{from\_lang}|#{to\_lang}” } )
p g\_res.body
Perhaps it has something to do with the file type you POST to?
(php/cfm/asp)
Regards,
Ricardo
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**Author:**  [@SSMKSM](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSMKSM)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-html-post-form-with-asp/54846/5 "2006-03-15T02:15:47Z")
On 3/14/06, |MKSM| [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> Here’s the error i get:
>
> [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Syntax error (missing
> operator) in query expression ‘[ID]=’.
The problem is that the receiving end seems to be expecting id in the
query string: request.querystring(“id”) for GET vs. request.form(“id”)
for POST in ASP.
HTH
C