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Matt Masters
Matt Masters

Reputation: 15

URI with variable

I've got a file with uids on separate lines, and I'm trying to include them in a URI. 

File.open("File Path").readlines.each do |line|

puts line

uid = line 

uri = URI("http://example:port/path/variable=#{uid}&fragment")

res = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)

puts res.body

But I get an error saying "bad URI(is not URI?)".

Could anyone help?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1287

Answers (3)

knut
knut

Reputation: 27845

Can you try a

uid = line.strip

The strip removes leading and trailing spaces and newlines.

With

p uid

or

puts uid.inspect

you may see the real content of the string.

Upvotes: 1

dimitarvp
dimitarvp

Reputation: 2383

It depends a lot on what are you actually feeding it, but I recommend trying these 2 things so you troubleshoot your code well.

  • Use puts "[#{uid}]" to see what does the line variable contain exactly. This will surely help you notice if it has a newline in it, for example. The right square bracket will be on the next line and you will know your input is malformed.

  • Try constructing the URL like this: uri = URI("http://example:port/path/variable=#{URI.encode(uid)}&fragment"). This will help you escape characters which are normally not allowed in an URI / URL.

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

turtledove
turtledove

Reputation: 25904

do you means

uri = URI("http://example:port/path/?variable=#{uid}&fragment")

Upvotes: 0

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