POSTing to a different website in a controller action

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I have a page that has form that I want to submit to one of my actions. However, inside of the action, I want to post to a different website and have the browser go to that website.

The code I found on the groups seems to indicate I should do something like the following. However, when I do the POST, I only see raw html in the browser. Anyone have a suggestion on how to do this?

Here's the action in my controller:

  def pre_place_order     parameters = Hash.new     parameters['business'] = Variable::paypal_business_account     parameters['upload'] = "1"     parameters['cmd'] = "_cart"     parameters['redirect_cmd'] = "_xclick"     parameters['return'] = "http://#{Variable::server_hostname}/ place_order"

    idx = 0     for item in @cart.shopping_cart_items do       idx += 1       parameters['item_name_#{idx}'] = item.product.name       parameters['item_number_#{idx}'] = item.product.id.to_s       parameters['amount_#{idx}'] = item.product.price. to_s

       if item.ship then         parameters['shipping_#{idx}'] = item.product.shipping_cost        end     end

    uri = URI.parse(Variable::paypal_transaction_url)     http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host)     headers, res = http.post(uri.path, parameters)     render res end

Thanks,

Scott

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Try

render :text => res

you might also set the content type to text/html…