Custom HTTP/HTTPS GET/POST queries in Ruby

paulgoscicki (Paul Goscicki) — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 03:50:12 GMT

First, the scripts sends the GET query to read the website cookies (for session, etc.), and then it sends a POST query with the received cookies and custom POST parameters.



require 'net/http'

require 'net/https'



http = Net::HTTP.new('profil.wp.pl', 443)

http.use_ssl = true

path = '/login.html'



# GET request -> so the host can set his cookies

resp, data = http.get(path, nil)

cookie = resp.response['set-cookie']





# POST request -> logging in

data = 'serwis=wp.pl&url=profil.html&tryLogin=1&countTest=1&logowaniessl=1&login_username=blah&login_password=blah'

headers = {

  'Cookie' => cookie,

  'Referer' => 'http://profil.wp.pl/login.html',

  'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

}



resp, data = http.post(path, data, headers)





# Output on the screen -> we should get either a 302 redirect (after a successful login) or an error page

puts 'Code = ' + resp.code

puts 'Message = ' + resp.message

resp.each {|key, val| puts key + ' = ' + val}

puts data

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Custom HTTP/HTTPS GET/POST queries in Ruby