Mo, your question is not Watir-related as you have described it, so you may have better luck using another Google group. I have not personally used the net/http method (I use Mechanize or Watir/ Webdriver). Have you tried filling out the form and submitting it using Watir?
Thanks, Adam On Aug 23, 11:06 am, Mohsen Qureshi <mohsen...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am wondering if anyone has any experience doing post requests. I am > trying to automate a request without having much luck..... > > I have HTML page which simulates the post for me, however I don't want > to include this. Its very simple and works, however trying to do this > using Ruby is proving a little difficult..... > Here is the HTML: > > <html><head> > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; > charset=ISO-8859-1"> > </head><body><form name="input" action="https://www.examplesite.com"; > method="post"> > promotions code: <input name="promotions_code" value="XXXXX" > type="text"> > <input name='button' value="Submit" type="submit"> > </form> > </body></html> > > I am trying to simulate this using net/http, and have come up with the > following code: > Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse('https://www.examplesite.com'), > {'promotions_code' => 'XXXXX', 'button' => 'Submit'}) > > However I keep getting a BadResponse error. Im not too sure what the > problem is here? Has anyone tried doing posts before, or can anyone > see anything wrong with what I am doing? > > Thanks in advance > > Mo -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
