Cheers Adam, i will do BTW thanks for mentioning Mechanize, I looked it up and that helped alot
Cheers Mo On Aug 23, 6:55 pm, Adam Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected]
