What I'm trying to do is use a def function in one of my application controllers to send a post on to another URI (using the http POST method) that is not on my server.
You're going to want to look at the net/http and/or mechanize libraries for that.
I also tried a redirect, but it seems this method only wants to initiate http GET actions.
Do you mean you want your response to the originating client to cause it to issue a POST request to an arbitrary URL? You can't do that. You can have the rails app issue a POST request, but you can't force the originating client to do so.
- donald
