From dsusco at gmail.com  Wed Jun 29 14:46:59 2011
From: dsusco at gmail.com (David Susco)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:46:59 -0400
Subject: sending a post request from a controller
Message-ID: <BANLkTimSQcBo4ecEbkUJMAC8VfMxGv5+8g@mail.gmail.com>

What's the cleanest way to do this? With Net::HTTP? I have a form
that's sent to a controller and validated. If its valid I'd like to
send the user on (along with the info they've entered) to an external
site to process payment.

Thanks,
Dave

From steve at steveklabnik.com  Wed Jun 29 15:44:14 2011
From: steve at steveklabnik.com (Steve Klabnik)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:44:14 -0400
Subject: sending a post request from a controller
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If you're sending them along, isn't that a redirect, not a POST?
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From dsusco at gmail.com  Wed Jun 29 16:43:01 2011
From: dsusco at gmail.com (David Susco)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:43:01 -0400
Subject: sending a post request from a controller
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Can I send POST data along with a redirect?

Dave

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Steve Klabnik <steve at steveklabnik.com> wrote:
> If you're sending them along, isn't that a redirect, not a POST?
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From steve at steveklabnik.com  Wed Jun 29 17:00:23 2011
From: steve at steveklabnik.com (Steve Klabnik)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:00:23 -0400
Subject: sending a post request from a controller
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No, redirects are an HTTP response, they're not a new request.

Can you give a more concrete example? Your explanation sounds like you're
trying to do two different things, and I'm not sure which you mean.
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From a at creativepony.com  Wed Jun 29 20:34:12 2011
From: a at creativepony.com (Jenna Fox)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:34:12 +1000
Subject: sending a post request from a controller
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To illuminate the difference:

User goes to website, webserver asks camping "What should I tell this guy?"

camping goes to other website using Net::HTTP, talks to other website a bit, then hangs up and goes back to the web server who asked that question and says...?

If you want the user to send a post request to another page, that's a bit tricky. Probably the best way to do it is to send them back a <form> with some <input type=hidden name=thing value=blah> type elements in it, then a little <script> which says:

<script> document.forms[0].submit(); </script>

at the end of the page. You should probably also include a submit button in the form for people with javascript turned off.

On 30/06/2011, at 4:46 AM, David Susco wrote:

> What's the cleanest way to do this? With Net::HTTP? I have a form
> that's sent to a controller and validated. If its valid I'd like to
> send the user on (along with the info they've entered) to an external
> site to process payment.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
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> Camping-list at rubyforge.org
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From dsusco at gmail.com  Thu Jun 30 09:48:22 2011
From: dsusco at gmail.com (David Susco)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:48:22 -0400
Subject: sending a post request from a controller
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Ideally I'd like a user to be able to submit a form to the camping
app, having camping do all the validation and some preprocessing and
then have the camping app send the user to an external site (with the
post data) where the user can complete a payment.

Dave

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Steve Klabnik <steve at steveklabnik.com> wrote:
> No, redirects are an HTTP response, they're not a new request.
> Can you give a more concrete example? Your explanation sounds like you're
> trying to do two different things, and I'm not sure which you mean.
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