Unfortunately open-uri only supports the GET verb. You can either drop down a level and use net/http, or use rest-open-uri, which was designed to support POST and other verbs. You can do gem install rest-open-uri to install it.
You can do the same without OpenURI: require ‘net/http’ require ‘uri’ def open(url) Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse(url)) end page_content = open(‘http://www.google.com’) puts page_content Or, more succinctly: Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse(‘http://www.google.com’))
This looks like a bug in URI, and uri-open, HTTParty and many other gems make use of URI.parse. Here’s a workaround: require ‘net/http’ require ‘open-uri’ def hopen(url) begin open(url) rescue URI::InvalidURIError host = url.match(“.+\:\/\/([^\/]+)”)[1] path = url.partition(host)[2] || “https://stackoverflow.com/” Net::HTTP.get host, path end end resp = hopen(“http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html”)
Have a look at the open_uri_redirections gem. It patches Ruby’s OpenURI to allow redirections from HTTP to HTTPS or the other way around.
According to the documentation, you can pass a hash of http headers as the second argument to open: open(“http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/”, “User-Agent” => “Ruby/#{RUBY_VERSION}”, “From” => “foo@bar.invalid”, “Referer” => “http://www.ruby-lang.org/”) {|f| # … }