Quick question proxy app in Rails

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Hi, sorry for duplicating these question from ruby-talk, thought someone from Rails list can help me.

I am loosing myself with Net:HTTP class, following HowToRenderProxiedPages article I cannot make post method to proxy parameters to web page.

require 'net/http' ### p.php <?php print_r($_POST)?>

### 1. does not work response = Net::HTTP.start('localhost', 80) { |http|    http.post('/p.php', 'query=ruby') } puts response

### 2. works response = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse('http://localhost/p.php’), { "query" => "ruby"}) puts response

Can anyone please explain me why the first one doesn't work? (I am using Ruby 1.8.4, tested both linux and win)

thanx, Bojan Mihelac

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Bojan Mihelac wrote:

Hi, sorry for duplicating these question from ruby-talk, thought someone from Rails list can help me.

I am loosing myself with Net:HTTP class, following HowToRenderProxiedPages article I cannot make post method to proxy parameters to web page.

require 'net/http' ### p.php <?php print_r($_POST)?>

### 1. does not work response = Net::HTTP.start('localhost', 80) { |http|    http.post('/p.php', 'query=ruby') } puts response

### 2. works response = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse('http://localhost/p.php’), { "query" => "ruby"}) puts response

Can anyone please explain me why the first one doesn't work? (I am using Ruby 1.8.4, tested both linux and win)

thanx, Bojan Mihelac

Found reason, header was not set in 1# case: headers['content-type'] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' if method =='POST' http.post('/p.php', 'query=123ruby', headers)