Sending http post request in Ruby by Net::HTTP

Question

I'm sending a request with custom headers to a web service.

require 'uri' require 'net/http'  uri = URI("https://api.site.com/api.dll") https = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port) https.use_ssl = true headers =  {     'HEADER1' => "VALUE1",     'HEADER2' => "HEADER2" }  response = https.post(uri.path, headers)  puts response 

It's not working, I'm receiving an error of:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1932:in `send_request_with_body': undefined method `bytesize' for #<Hash:0x00000001b93a10> (NoMethodError) 

How do I solve this?

P.S. Ruby 1.9.3

Answer 1

Try this:

For detailed documentation, take a look at: http://www.rubyinside.com/nethttp-cheat-sheet-2940.html

require 'uri' require 'net/http'  uri = URI('https://api.site.com/api.dll') https = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port) https.use_ssl = true  request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)  request['HEADER1'] = 'VALUE1' request['HEADER2'] = 'VALUE2'  response = https.request(request) puts response 

Answer 2

The second argument of Net::HTTP#post needs to be a String containing the data to post (often form data), the headers would be in the optional third argument.