Post xml over https connection

Ruby
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Has anyone posted xml data over a https connection? We have a vendor
product that has an API that allows for programmatic operation. Data is
exchanged in xml format. The exchange occurs over https. Any tips or
ideas would be appreciated. I can open https connection, but I’m not
sure how to post raw XML over the connections.

Thanks

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On 14.08.2007 22:05, brad wrote:

Has anyone posted xml data over a https connection? We have a vendor
product that has an API that allows for programmatic operation. Data is
exchanged in xml format. The exchange occurs over https. Any tips or
ideas would be appreciated. I can open https connection, but I’m not
sure how to post raw XML over the connections.

Just like with HTTP: set the content type to “text/xml” and send (post)
the data.

Kind regards

robert

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can open https connection, but I’m not sure how to post raw
XML over the connections.

Thanks

Just in case it applies here - a lot of such APIs are implemented as
XML-RPC.
If yours is, try
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/xmlrpc/rdoc/index.html

HTH,

Felix

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Robert K. wrote:

Just like with HTTP: set the content type to “text/xml” and send (post)
the data.

Kind regards

robert

Perhaps I’m doing something wrong. Here’s what I’m trying:

nex = Net::HTTP.new(“https://127.0.0.1”, port)
nex.use_ssl = true
path = ‘/path/to/xml_interface/’
headers = {‘Content-Type’ => ‘text/xml’}
resp, data = nex.post(path, data, headers)

I get this error:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in initialize': getaddrinfo: Name or service not known (SocketError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in open’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in connect' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:48:in timeout’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in timeout' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in connect’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in do_start' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:in start’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1032:in request' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:842:in post’

The code works up until the actual post attempt. Any ideas?

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Keith F. wrote:

data = “foo”
headers = {‘Content-Type’ => ‘text/xml’}

warning, uri.path will drop queries, use uri.path + uri.query if you need to

resp, body = nex.post(uri.path, data, headers)

HTH,
Keith

That was silly of me. Thank you for the example and the doc pointer. I
have it working now.

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On 8/15/07, brad [email protected] wrote:

Robert K. wrote:
Perhaps I’m doing something wrong. Here’s what I’m trying:

nex = Net::HTTP.new(“https://127.0.0.1”, port)
nex.use_ssl = true
path = ‘/path/to/xml_interface/’
headers = {‘Content-Type’ => ‘text/xml’}
resp, data = nex.post(path, data, headers)

(Not sure that ‘data’ is set correctly above…)

You’ll want to pass HTTP.new an address, not a URL:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html

Something like:
require ‘net/https’
require ‘uri’
url = “https://127.0.0.1:7891/path/to/xml_interface”
uri = URI.parse(url)
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true if (uri.scheme == ‘https’)
data = “foo”
headers = {‘Content-Type’ => ‘text/xml’}

warning, uri.path will drop queries, use uri.path + uri.query if you

need to
resp, body = nex.post(uri.path, data, headers)

HTH,
Keith