CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby
user1156544
user1156544

Reputation: 1817

http.post request not receiving any data

I have a program that sends an HTTP request and receive the answer.

http = Net::HTTP.new(server, port)
resp, data = http.post(path, url, headers)

After this I see resp with a value of #<Net::HTTPOK:0x00005643dd572980> and data empty, so I receive a no implicit conversion of nil into String error afterwards when I use it.

I have never used Ruby so I'm a bit confused about what can be failing or how I can debug this. I capture network traffic and both the request and response are sent correctly, and the response contains the expected data.

Is there anything that can make data be empty? How can I debug this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 79

Answers (1)

pjd
pjd

Reputation: 1173

Per the documentation, the Net::HTTP post method returns an HTTPResponse object. Since there is only one object returned, only resp will be given a value.

You mentioned that "the response contains the expected data." I am wondering if you simply need to employ the body method. Does resp.body give you the data you are looking for?

See https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.7.1/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/HTTP.html#method-i-post

Upvotes: 2

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