Asp Forum - Net::HTTP working on Windows, but not Unix

James Gray

3/2/2006 8:04:00 PM

We have an odd problem at work today.

Running the following code on Windows XP gives us a CVV2 error, which
is what we expect (we didn't give one). However, running the same
code on Linux or OS X gets a complaint that we didn't provide the
key, which is obviously not true (see last line).

Does anyone see anything inherently non-portable in the following code?

require 'net/http'
require 'net/https'

uri = URI.parse 'https://www.usaepay.com/gat...
p (http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port))
p http.use_ssl = true
p http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
p http.post(uri.path, "UMkey=OUR_KEY_CODE_HERE").body

Thanks in advance for any hints.

James Edward Gray II

3 Answers

James Gray

3/2/2006 10:01:00 PM

On Mar 2, 2006, at 2:03 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> We have an odd problem at work today.
>
> Running the following code on Windows XP gives us a CVV2 error,
> which is what we expect (we didn't give one). However, running the
> same code on Linux or OS X gets a complaint that we didn't provide
> the key, which is obviously not true (see last line).
>
> Does anyone see anything inherently non-portable in the following
> code?
>
> require 'net/http'
> require 'net/https'
>
> uri = URI.parse 'https://www.usaepay.com/gat...
> p (http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port))
> p http.use_ssl = true
> p http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
> p http.post(uri.path, "UMkey=OUR_KEY_CODE_HERE").body
>

Switching the code to the following seems to work everywhere, as long
as 1.8.4 is used:

require 'net/https'

uri = URI.parse 'https://www.usaepay.com/gat...
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
req.set_form_data "UMkey" => "OUR_KEY_CODE_HERE"
p (http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port))
p http.use_ssl = true
p http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
p http.start { http.request(req) }.body

I still don't understand why the first version didn't work though...

James Edward Gray II

James Gray

3/3/2006 12:35:00 AM

On Mar 2, 2006, at 4:00 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Mar 2, 2006, at 2:03 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>
>> We have an odd problem at work today.
>>
>> Running the following code on Windows XP gives us a CVV2 error,
>> which is what we expect (we didn't give one). However, running
>> the same code on Linux or OS X gets a complaint that we didn't
>> provide the key, which is obviously not true (see last line).
>>
>> Does anyone see anything inherently non-portable in the following
>> code?
>>
>> require 'net/http'
>> require 'net/https'
>>
>> uri = URI.parse 'https://www.usaepay.com/gat...
>> p (http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port))
>> p http.use_ssl = true
>> p http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
>> p http.post(uri.path, "UMkey=OUR_KEY_CODE_HERE").body
>>
>
> Switching the code to the following seems to work everywhere, as
> long as 1.8.4 is used:
>
> require 'net/https'
>
> uri = URI.parse 'https://www.usaepay.com/gat...
> req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
> req.set_form_data "UMkey" => "OUR_KEY_CODE_HERE"
> p (http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port))
> p http.use_ssl = true
> p http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
> p http.start { http.request(req) }.body
>
> I still don't understand why the first version didn't work though...

Sorry to keep responding to myself but we have now realized that that
the Windows machine, where the top example originally worked, was
running 1.8.2 while both failing machines were running 1.8.4.

The bottom "fix" did not work on the Windows box right off the bat,
because set_form_data() seems to have been added after 1.8.2.
Upgrading fixes the issue.

That raises the question of what caused the original failure though.
Was the handling of the second parameter to post() changed between
1.8.2 and 1.8.4? If so, I suspect there could be some more broken
code out there...

James Edward Gray II

Park Heesob

3/3/2006 2:21:00 AM

Hi,

>From: James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
>Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
>To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
>Subject: Re: Net::HTTP working on Windows, but not Unix
>Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 09:35:13 +0900
>
>On Mar 2, 2006, at 4:00 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>
>>On Mar 2, 2006, at 2:03 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>>
>>>We have an odd problem at work today.
>>>
>>>Running the following code on Windows XP gives us a CVV2 error, which is
>>>what we expect (we didn't give one). However, running the same code on
>>>Linux or OS X gets a complaint that we didn't provide the key, which is
>>>obviously not true (see last line).
>>>
>>>Does anyone see anything inherently non-portable in the following code?
>>>
>>> require 'net/http'
>>> require 'net/https'
>>>
>>> uri = URI.parse 'https://www.usaepay.com/gat...
>>> p (http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port))
>>> p http.use_ssl = true
>>> p http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
>>> p http.post(uri.path, "UMkey=OUR_KEY_CODE_HERE").body
This will work :

p http.post(uri.path, "UMkey=OUR_KEY_CODE_HERE",{'Content-Type' =>
'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}).body

>>>
>>
>>Switching the code to the following seems to work everywhere, as long as
>>1.8.4 is used:
...
>>
>>I still don't understand why the first version didn't work though...
>
>Sorry to keep responding to myself but we have now realized that that the
>Windows machine, where the top example originally worked, was running
>1.8.2 while both failing machines were running 1.8.4.
>
>The bottom "fix" did not work on the Windows box right off the bat,
>because set_form_data() seems to have been added after 1.8.2. Upgrading
>fixes the issue.
>
>That raises the question of what caused the original failure though. Was
>the handling of the second parameter to post() changed between 1.8.2 and
>1.8.4? If so, I suspect there could be some more broken code out there...
>
There must be a bug in 1.8.4 Net::HTTP post.
I suspect lib/net/http.rb line #1507

unless content_type()
warn 'net/http: warning: Content-Type did not set; using
application/x-www-form-urlencoded' if $VERBOSE
set_content_type 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
end

Regards,

Park Heesob

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