http_request.rb 1.0.3 → 1.0.4

data/Changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+v1.0.4
+    * support gzipped content only if the zlib library is loaded
+		* post xml data via the POST method
+
 v1.0.3
     * add some dynamic methods such as code_1xx?, code_200?, code_403? etc. for check the http status 
     * decompressing gzipped body automatically, the 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate' has been added into the header for sending request automatically.

data/README.rdoc

@@ -205,6 +205,20 @@ download multiple files from a directory
 
    supported methods:  code_1xx? code_2xx? code_3xx? code_4xx? code_5xx? code_101? code_200? ...
 
+== check whether or not the remote site is available (since v1.0.3)
+   
+   # return true if can access to the website with socket connecation even it is a 500 or 404 page, otherwise, return false
+   HttpRequest.available?('http://www.github.com/')
+
+== send XML data via the post method (since v1.0.4)
+
+   xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+          <items>
+             <item id="it1">item one</item>
+             <item id="it2">item two</item>
+          </items>'
+   HttpRequest.post(:url => 'http://localhost/xml.php', :parameters = xml)
+
 == TODO
 
   bug fixing, testing and testing...

data/lib/http_request.rb

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@
 #
 # == Version
 # 
-#   v1.0.3
+#   v1.0.4
 #
-#   Last Change: 27 May, 2009
+#   Last Change: 9 June, 2009
 #
 # == Author
 #
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class HttpRequest
 	include Singleton
 
 	# version
-	VERSION = '1.0.3'.freeze
+	VERSION = '1.0.4'.freeze
 	def self.version;VERSION;end
 
 	# avaiabled http methods
@@ -192,11 +192,14 @@ class HttpRequest
 		@uri.path = '/' if @uri.path.empty?
 		@headers = {
 			'Host'            => @uri.host,
-			'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip,deflate',
 			'Referer'         => @options[:url],
 			'User-Agent'      => 'HttpRequest.rb ' + VERSION
 		}
 
+		# support gzip
+		begin; require 'zlib'; rescue LoadError; end
+		@headers['Accept-Encoding'] = 'gzip,deflate' if defined? Zlib
+
 		# Basic Authenication
 		@headers['Authorization'] = "Basic " + [@uri.userinfo].pack('m').delete!("\r\n") if @uri.userinfo
 
@@ -255,14 +258,21 @@ class HttpRequest
 	# send http request
 	def send_request(http)
 
-		# merge parameters
-		parameters = @options[:parameters].to_s
-		@options[:parameters] = "#{@uri.query}" if @uri.query
-		if parameters
-			if @options[:parameters]
-				@options[:parameters] << "&#{parameters}"
-			else
-				@options[:parameters] = "#{parameters}"
+		# xml data?
+		if @options[:parameters].to_s[0..4].eql?('<?xml') and @options[:method].eql? 'post'
+			@headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/xml'
+			@headers['Content-Length'] = @options[:parameters].size.to_s
+			@headers['Content-MD5'] = MD5.md5(@options[:parameters]).to_s
+		else
+			# merge parameters
+			parameters = @options[:parameters].to_s
+			@options[:parameters] = "#{@uri.query}" if @uri.query
+			if parameters
+				if @options[:parameters]
+					@options[:parameters] << "&#{parameters}"
+				else
+					@options[:parameters] = "#{parameters}"
+				end
 			end
 		end
 
@@ -296,10 +306,10 @@ module Net
 		def body
 			bd = read_body()
 			return bd unless bd
-			unless self['content-encoding'].eql? 'gzip'
-				bd
-			else
+			if (self['content-encoding'] == 'gzip') and defined?(Zlib)
 				::Zlib::GzipReader.new(StringIO.new(bd)).read
+			else
+				bd
 			end
 		end
 

metadata

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
 name: http_request.rb
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-  version: 1.0.3
+  version: 1.0.4
 platform: ruby
 authors: 
 - xianhua.zhou
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ autorequire:
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
 
-date: 2009-05-27 00:00:00 +08:00
+date: 2009-06-13 00:00:00 +08:00
 default_executable: 
 dependencies: []