An HTTP client API for Ruby. Net::HTTP provides a rich library which can be used to build HTTP user-agents.
Questions tagged [net-http]
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Why do I get 404 with a valid url using Net::HTTP.post_form?
I use the following code to pass data into a website:
require "net/http"
params = {"message"=>"some message", "to"=>"someone"}
Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse("http://example.com/m/send"),params)
When I inspect the web page, the form action is…

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How to use square brackets [] in URI in Ruby HTTP request
I am using an API that requires me to issue a request to a URL with one of the fields passed as an array. For…

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Requesting data from an API using Net::HTTP before a user logs in?
I'm trying to integrate my Ruby on Rails application with CheddarGetter using their hosted payment pages (http://support.cheddargetter.com/kb/hosted-payment-pages/hosted-payment-pages-setup-guide).
I pretty much have everything figured out except…

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How set Header with Net::Http for Goo.gl Shorten service?
Like describe in API Goo.gl
Manualy curl work perfectly :
curl https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"longUrl": "http://www.rubyinside.com/"}'
Bu when i try to make this in Net::Http…

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How would I do a while statement with net/http if it keeps timing out?
I have the following code:
require 'rubygems'
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
url = URI.parse('http://servername.tld/up.txt')
response = Net::HTTP.get_response(url)
@yes = response.body
until @yes == "yes"
puts "It's down"
end
The contents of…

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How can I post xml data using net/http that also has data in the url
I am working with an api that requires me to post xml to url such as someapi.com?userID=123. Thus far, I have tried this (assume the xml is composed already in the xml variable):
url = URI.parse('http://www.someapi.com/process_leads.asp')
request =…

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Post to a Url with a Querystring in Ruby
In Ruby, it doesn't appear that it's possible to POST to a URL that has a querystring using Net:HTTP. At least, in my tests it gets dropped, and there's a 3 year old discussion here about how it doesn't work.
So, what's a decent way to go about it?…

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"Faraday::ConnectionFailed: Broken pipe" when uploading Tempfile to S3 Presigned URL
In my Ruby on Rails application, I need to upload large (~30MB or greater) MP4 video assets to an Amazon S3 Presigned URL using the Faraday Ruby gem. This operation frequently fails with a Faraday::ConnectionFailed: Broken pipe error. I want to…

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RESTful Rails controller ans net/http as client - slow on many requests
I have an Array populated with potentially lots of records. Every records shall be saved by the server in a RESTful RecordsController. My Solution in the moment looks like this:
def self.send! options = nil
records = fetch_records
records.each…

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http.get randomly says "getaddrinfo: Name or service not known"
To generate offline reports, my Rails app needs to download charts from the Google Charts API.
PROBLEM: It works fine most of the time, but sometimes (randomly) it fails and says getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
When I get the error, I just…

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Cookies - I may be crazy with ruby/rails
Is it possible to login with net/http or curl, save the cookie response then write that cookie to the users browser so I can "push login" (in a sense)?
Is there another way of doing this, is this even possible, or am I simply crazy?
I'm aware of how…

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Can we call ASP.Net page load function from Rails application?
I'm facing an issue while calling the ASP.Net function from Rails.
First I want to know that Is it possible to call the ASP.Net function from Rails?
I tried to call it but facing error message
I…

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Make a attendance table for students with Go
I'm trying to create a Student Attendance web app. Currently have a struct
type Student struct {
StudentID int
StudentName string
Created time.Time
}
All student will be listed on list.html
func ListStudent(w http.ResponseWriter, r…

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Gorilla websocket is not closing
I want to open websocket server whenever i want to and close but server does not close after writing "exit" when i go back to my main() and i try to start again it fails saying "httpHandleFunc multiple registration '/' " how do i close websocket…

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Using Ruby on Rails to POST JSON/XML data to a web service
I built a web service in using Spring framework in Java and have it run on a tc server on localhost. I tested the web service using curl and it works. In other words, this curl command will post a new transaction to the web service.
curl -X POST -H…

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