Ruby Remote HTTP Post

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How do you do a Remote HTTP Post (request) in ruby?

Chuck · Accepted Answer · 2009-02-12 18:52:58Z

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With Net::HTTP. Correct but non-working example (because Google only supports GET — sorry, I couldn't think of any open POST forms off the top of my head):

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

result = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse("http://google.com/search"), {"q" => "Rick Astley"})

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edited Feb 12, 2009 at 18:52

answered Feb 12, 2009 at 18:47

Chuck

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user36457 Over a year ago

You are posting a form to a search which takes get parameters. Google will return you an error.

Chuck Over a year ago

That's what I said. Google actually requires GET parameters, but I couldn't think of any good examples of commonly used POST forms off the top of my head. I think it pretty clearly illustrates how you do a POST, though.

Antti Tarvainen · Accepted Answer · 2009-02-13 13:03:39Z

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If the server conforms to REST you should take a look at either rest-client or ActiveResource.

answered Feb 13, 2009 at 13:03

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