Class: Net::HTTPRequest

Inherits:

HTTPGenericRequest

• Object
• HTTPGenericRequest
• Net::HTTPRequest

Defined in:

lib/net/http/request.rb

Overview

HTTP request class. This class wraps together the request header and the request path. You cannot use this class directly. Instead, you should use one of its subclasses: Net::HTTP::Get, Net::HTTP::Post, Net::HTTP::Head.

Direct Known Subclasses

Net::HTTP::Copy, Net::HTTP::Delete, Net::HTTP::Get, Net::HTTP::Head, Net::HTTP::Lock, Net::HTTP::Mkcol, Net::HTTP::Move, Net::HTTP::Options, Net::HTTP::Patch, Net::HTTP::Post, Net::HTTP::Propfind, Net::HTTP::Proppatch, Net::HTTP::Put, Net::HTTP::Trace, Net::HTTP::Unlock

Instance Attribute Summary

Attributes inherited from HTTPGenericRequest

#body, #body_stream, #decode_content, #method, #path, #uri

Instance Method Summary

• #initialize(path, initheader = nil) ⇒ HTTPRequest constructor

  Creates an HTTP request object for path.

Methods inherited from HTTPGenericRequest

#[]=, #body_exist?, #exec, #inspect, #request_body_permitted?, #response_body_permitted?, #set_body_internal, #update_uri

Methods included from HTTPHeader

#[], #[]=, #add_field, #basic_auth, #chunked?, #connection_close?, #connection_keep_alive?, #content_length, #content_length=, #content_range, #content_type, #delete, #each_capitalized, #each_capitalized_name, #each_header, #each_name, #each_value, #fetch, #get_fields, #initialize_http_header, #key?, #main_type, #proxy_basic_auth, #range, #range_length, #set_content_type, #set_form, #set_form_data, #set_range, #size, #sub_type, #to_hash, #type_params

Constructor Details

#initialize(path, initheader = nil) ⇒ HTTPRequest

Creates an HTTP request object for path.

initheader are the default headers to use. Net::HTTP adds Accept-Encoding to enable compression of the response body unless Accept-Encoding or Range are supplied in initheader.

# File 'lib/net/http/request.rb', line 14

def initialize(path, initheader = nil)
  super self.class::METHOD,
        self.class::REQUEST_HAS_BODY,
        self.class::RESPONSE_HAS_BODY,
        path, initheader
end