Comments on: Custom HTTPS POST queries in Ruby

By: Mike Byers

Mike Byers — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:32:31 +0000

Thanks for this. This is exactly what I needed to complete a project. Glad to see the guy who recommended mechanize thanked you first. I prefer this solution because it does not require the installation of yet another gem or plugin. I don’t see where using mechanize for this task would buy me much. Certainly not enough to justify having to manage another gem or plugin,

By: Paul Goscicki

Paul Goscicki — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:44:16 +0000

@Marc: you need a httpd for that.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:05:33 +0000

I have the same question as pradeepta : the problem is not how to send data via POST or GET but how to get back the info via POST or GET. I have a form with an input file for a upload in HTML tags. The file is sent by GET method. How do I get the file back to process it ?

By: pradeepta

pradeepta — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:07:28 +0000

Hi, I am trying to post form data from a jsp page which is using http method GET . How can I use it and get response .

By: Avishai

Avishai — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:39:42 +0000

Wow, this turns out to be _extremely_ helpful!!! I WWW::Mechanize takes care of all the dirty work for you. I was able to use it to construct a pseudo-API to a site that doesnt have one

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By: Paul Goscicki

Paul Goscicki — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:00:19 +0000

Sounds very interesting. I must try it out.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:41:28 +0000

Was playing with that for awhile and then I just discovered WWW::Mechanize. Have you seen this thing? It’s totally amazing. It was so easy, I took the liberty of rewriting your script using it like so:

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘mechanize’

agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
agent.user_agent_alias = ‘Mac Safari’

page = agent.get(‘http://profil.wp.pl/login.html’)

form = page.forms[0]
form.fields.find{|f| f.name == ‘login_username’}.value = “blah”
form.fields.find{|f| f.name == ‘login_password’}.value = “blah”

page = agent.submit(form)
puts page.body

So easy! You can also turn on verbose logging by changing that first line to:
agent = WWW::Mechanize.new {|a| a.log = Logger.new(STDERR) }. Plus it does link-clicking and all kinds of other fancy stuff. It’s the best thing since sliced-bread.

By: Paul Goscicki

Paul Goscicki — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:08:33 +0000

It sould be fairly easy to combine my code with the redirect implementation from ruby-doc (scroll down one screen).

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 08:08:26 +0000

Hey, thanks for this, it’s really useful! Was wondering if you knew of any conveneint way to follow redirects?