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Dave Burt  
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 More options Mar 10 2005, 3:47 am
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From: "Dave Burt" <d...@burt.id.au>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:47:15 GMT
Local: Thurs, Mar 10 2005 3:47 am
Subject: Re: Encoding a multipart/form-data for posting via HTTP
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It sounds to me as if this should be in Net::HTTP::Post.

"Dema" <demetriusnu...@gmail.com> offered:

> After googling around (with no luck) for a while for a function that
> would encode a hash into a multipart/form-data to be sent to a HTTP
> server via POST, I decided to read the RFC and write my own. In fact,
> it's not that complicated and I would like to share it just in case
> someone else needs it:

> BOUNDARY = "AaB03x"
> def encode_multipartformdata(parameters = {})
>  ret = String.new
>  parameters.each do |key, value|
>    unless value.empty?
>      ret << "\r\n--" << BOUNDARY << "\r\n"
>      ret << "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"#{key}\"\r\n\r\n"
>      ret << value
>    end
>  end
>  ret << "\r\n--" << BOUNDARY << "--\r\n"
> end

> I got stuck for a while on the boundary syntax and the \r\n stuff, but
> eventually it worked ok.

> I just needed it to send some data to a RDF database that offers a HTTP
> API channel. So, this only works for the simplest case. There are some
> more complex variations, like uploading one or more files, setting
> individual content types for each part, etc.

> rgds
> Dema


 
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