Rails - Apr 2006 - Post to a remote page

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!

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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.

On 4/29/06, Nauhaie <noe.cuneo@laposte.net> wrote:
> 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!
>
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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.

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Great!

Thanks a lot!

Nauhaie

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