Class: Net::HTTPGenericRequest

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Includes:
HTTPHeader
Defined in:
lib/jnlp/jnlp.rb

Overview

Monkey patch Net::HTTP so it always provides a User-Agent if the request doesn’t already specify one.

This compensates for a bug in Tomcat/webstart servers which throw a 500 error for requests w/o a User-Agent header.

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(m, reqbody, resbody, path, initheader = nil) ⇒ HTTPGenericRequest

Returns a new instance of HTTPGenericRequest.

Raises:

  • (ArgumentError) 


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# File 'lib/jnlp/jnlp.rb', line 25

def initialize(m, reqbody, resbody, path, initheader = nil)
  @method = m
  @request_has_body = reqbody
  @response_has_body = resbody
  raise ArgumentError, "HTTP request path is empty" if path.empty?
  @path = path
  initialize_http_header initheader
  self['Accept'] ||= '*/*'
  self['User-Agent'] ||= 'Ruby' # this is the new line
  @body = nil
  @body_stream = nil
end