Method: HTTPClient#request

Defined in:

lib/httpclient.rb

#request(method, uri, *args, &block) ⇒ Object

Sends a request to the specified URL.

method

HTTP method to be sent. method.to_s.upcase is used.

uri

a String or an URI object which represents an URL of web resource.

query

a Hash or an Array of query part of URL. e.g. { “a” => “b” } => ‘host/part?a=b’ Give an array to pass multiple value like

[“a”, “b”], [“a”, “c”]

> ‘host/part?a=b&a=c’

body

a Hash or an Array of body part. e.g.

{ "a" => "b" }
=> 'a=b'

Give an array to pass multiple value like

[["a", "b"], ["a", "c"]]
=> 'a=b&a=c'.

When the given method is ‘POST’ and the given body contains a file as a value, it will be posted as a multipart/form-data. e.g.

{ 'upload' => file }

You can also send custom multipart by passing an array of hashes. Each part must have a :content attribute which can be a file, all other keys will become headers.

[{ 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain', :content => "some text" },
 { 'Content-Type' => 'video/mp4', :content => File.new('video.mp4') }]
=> <Two parts with custom Content-Type header>

See HTTP::Message.file? for actual condition of ‘a file’.

header

a Hash or an Array of extra headers. e.g. { ‘Accept’ => ‘text/html’ } or [[‘Accept’, ‘image/jpeg’], [‘Accept’, ‘image/png’]].

&block

Give a block to get chunked message-body of response like get(uri) { |chunked_body| … }. Size of each chunk may not be the same.

You can also pass a String as a body. HTTPClient just sends a String as a HTTP request message body.

When you pass an IO as a body, HTTPClient sends it as a HTTP request with chunked encoding (Transfer-Encoding: chunked in HTTP header) if IO does not respond to :size. Bear in mind that some server application does not support chunked request. At least cgi.rb does not support it.

# File 'lib/httpclient.rb', line 846

def request(method, uri, *args, &block)
  query, body, header, follow_redirect = keyword_argument(args, :query, :body, :header, :follow_redirect)
  if method == :propfind
    header ||= PROPFIND_DEFAULT_EXTHEADER
  else
    header ||= {}
  end
  uri = to_resource_url(uri)
  if block
    filtered_block = adapt_block(&block)
  end
  if follow_redirect
    follow_redirect(method, uri, query, body, header, &block)
  else
    do_request(method, uri, query, body, header, &filtered_block)
  end
end