Post to a remote page

Rails
1

Hi all,

I am sorry if this question has already been replied here, but I did not
manage to find an answer.

I am looking for a way to post data to a remote web page. I don’t want
to use hidden fields and a submit button, I would just like some ruby
code that would post parametres to a web page and store the web page
that the remote server sends back.

I am not sure that I have been clear, so, here is an example.

I have a simple page on a php server B that contains the code

print ($_POST[‘var1’]+$_POST[‘var1’]);

And I have my ruby server A, and what I would like to do is post var1
and var2 to server B and store the answer (A+B) that server B gives me
back.

Is it possible to do such a thing?

I hope that someone will be able to help me!

Thank you very much!

2

You can use Net::HTTP to do an HTTP transfer inside of one of your
scripts, and then save the result. I’ve never done it, but honestly, it
shouldn’t be hard. Check
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/lib_network.html for the API.

3

Great!

Thanks a lot!

Nauhaie

4

Are you bound to POST? You could use a REST-like approach and hit the
remote page with GET requests via net/http and parse the response.