Method: Net::HTTPHeader#set_form

Defined in:

lib/net/http/header.rb

#set_form(params, enctype = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', formopt = {}) ⇒ Object

Set an HTML form data set.

params

The form data to set, which should be an enumerable. See below for more details.

enctype

The content type to use to encode the form submission, which should be application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data.

formopt

An options hash, supporting the following options:

:boundary

The boundary of the multipart message. If not given, a random boundary will be used.

:charset

The charset of the form submission. All field names and values of non-file fields should be encoded with this charset.

Each item of params should respond to each and yield 2-3 arguments, or an array of 2-3 elements. The arguments yielded should be:

* The name of the field.
* The value of the field, it should be a String or a File or IO-like.
* An options hash, supporting the following options, only
  used for file uploads:
  :filename :: The name of the file to use.
  :content_type :: The content type of the uploaded file.

Each item is a file field or a normal field. If value is a File object or the opt hash has a :filename key, the item is treated as a file field.

If Transfer-Encoding is set as chunked, this sends the request using chunked encoding. Because chunked encoding is HTTP/1.1 feature, you should confirm that the server supports HTTP/1.1 before using chunked encoding.

Example:

req.set_form([["q", "ruby"], ["lang", "en"]])

req.set_form({"f"=>File.open('/path/to/filename')},
             "multipart/form-data",
             charset: "UTF-8",
)

req.set_form([["f",
               File.open('/path/to/filename.bar'),
               {filename: "other-filename.foo"}
             ]],
             "multipart/form-data",
)

See also RFC 2388, RFC 2616, HTML 4.01, and HTML5

# File 'lib/net/http/header.rb', line 473

def set_form(params, enctype='application/x-www-form-urlencoded', formopt={})
  @body_data = params
  @body = nil
  @body_stream = nil
  @form_option = formopt
  case enctype
  when /\Aapplication\/x-www-form-urlencoded\z/i,
    /\Amultipart\/form-data\z/i
    self.content_type = enctype
  else
    raise ArgumentError, "invalid enctype: #{enctype}"
  end
end