Routing Error when using "Net::HTTP.start" but doesn't occur

Rails
1

Hi all,

I’m stuck on a Routing Error I’m getting when calling my application
(App2)
from a test/stub application (App1), however when I enter the same
request
to App2 via the browser I do NOT get this routing issue and it works.

My problem is in more detail (if anyone can help) that:

[1] when I call an action in App2 from App1 I get a ROUTING ERROR,
“Recognition failed for /mycontroller/myaction” - this seems to come
from
App2’s inbuilt Rails framework which somehow sees a routing problem and
immediately sends back a “Routing Error” message without ever getting to
my
code within App2.
[2] when I use the browser with same "
http://localhost:3000/mycontroller/myaction" URL (i.e. that App1 seems
to be
correctly producing, although I don’t have a HTTP trace mechanism to
100%
prove this) App2 seems to work fine
[3] again I don’t see any log info turn up in App2 (as if the rails
framework picked up on the routing error first and then bounced it prior
to
my code getting involved)
[4] some details of my code below

Code Used (which resides in App1 running on port 3001 - it’s calling
App2
running on port 3000)
url = " http://localhost:3000/mycontroller/myaction"
uri = URI.parse(url)
response = nil
Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) do |request|
response = request.post(uri.path, postData)
end

Note that “response.body” here gives:

Action Controller: Exception caught <>

Routing Error

Recognition failed for 
"/mycontroller/myaction"

Browser Test

Any ideas/help? I can’t seem to see what I’m doing wrong. Any way to
trace
the HTTP coming directly into App2 to see for myself what Rails is
doing?
What about a way to turn up the logging/trace for rails re HTTP?

Thanks in advance
Greg
(TextEdit / MacBook)

2

You could print/log debug information from the Dispatcher.dispatch
method
where a ActionController::CgiRequest gets created.

Also note that you are doing a GET in your browser test, but a POST with
Net::HTTP.

–
James.

3

Hi, are you really posting data to the form location? If this is
truly the case, you can do something like the following:

BEGIN CODE:

require ‘net/http’
require ‘uri’

url = " http://localhost:3000/mycontroller/myaction "
res = Net::HTTP.post_form( URI.parse( url ), post_data )

puts res.body

END CODE:

Note: The post data should be represented as a hash.

Good luck,

-Conrad

4

to give some more detail calling application is my PalPal stub, and it’s
making a HTTP call to my application to simulate the PalPal IPN call.
So
all I have in my application is a “handle_IPN” action in my PayPal
controller. Does this clarify things?

I’ll try the “Net::HTTP.post_form” approach instead of “Net::HTTP.start”
then to see if this helps…I don’t fully understand the difference.
Perhaps I need to use a Net:HTTP method that simulates a GET rather than
a
POST? (noting James’s point)

Tks
Greg