Bug #1404
closed
Net::HTTP::Post failing when a post field contains ":"
Description
=begin
require 'net/http'
post_me = {
'var' => 'a:b'
}
uri = URI.parse("www.someserver.com")
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
request.set_form_data(post_me)
Gives the following error:
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/net/http.rb:1524:in sprintf': invalid value for Integer: ":" (ArgumentError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/net/http.rb:1524:in block in urlencode'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/net/http.rb:1524:in gsub' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/net/http.rb:1524:in urlencode'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/net/http.rb:1519:in block in encode_kvpair' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/net/http.rb:1519:in map'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/net/http.rb:1519:in encode_kvpair' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/net/http.rb:1512:in block in set_form_data'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/net/http.rb:1512:in each' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/net/http.rb:1512:in map'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/net/http.rb:1512:in set_form_data' from rubybug.rb:7:in '
=end
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