Quick question proxy app in Rails

Rails
1

Hi,
sorry for duplicating these question from ruby-talk, thought someone
from Rails list can help me.

I am loosing myself with Net:HTTP class, following
HowToRenderProxiedPages article I cannot make post method to proxy
parameters to web page.

require ‘net/http’

p.php <?php print_r($_POST)?>

1. does not work

response = Net::HTTP.start(‘localhost’, 80) { |http|
http.post(‘/p.php’, ‘query=ruby’)
}
puts response

2. works

response = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse(‘http://localhost/p.php’), {
“query” => “ruby”})
puts response

Can anyone please explain me why the first one doesn’t work? (I am using
Ruby 1.8.4, tested both linux and win)

thanx,
Bojan M.

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Bojan M. wrote:

p.php <?php print_r($_POST)?>

puts response

Found reason, header was not set in 1# case:
headers[‘content-type’] = ‘application/x-www-form-urlencoded’ if method
==‘POST’
http.post(‘/p.php’, ‘query=123ruby’, headers)

–
Bojan M.
Informatika Mihelac, Bojan M. s.p. | www.informatikamihelac.com
→ tools, scripts, tricks from our code lab: http://source.mihelac.org