[Myexperiment-discuss] Handle GET/POST and send on

[Linde, A.E.]

Hi, my proxy controller handles GETs ok but the majority of calls to it will be POSTs, so at the moment I have:

  def proxy

    query = CGIMethods.parse_query_parameters(request.query_string)
    uri   = URI.parse(query['uri'])

    response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) { |http|
      http.get(uri.path + (uri.query ? "?"+uri.query : ""))
    }

    send_data(response.body, :type => response['content-type'],
        :status => "#{response.code} #{response.message}")
  end
Can someone tell me what I need to: a) detect whether call is POST or GET; b) if post, how to get parameter values and compose a new POST to a url in one of the parameter values?

Many thanks,
Tony.

(I know I should work this out myself but I’m desperately trying to get a demo together for a meeting next week.)

-- 
Tony Linde
Project Manager
Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of Leicester