(Ruby) HTTPS multipart/form-data POST

Demonstrates how to send a multipart/form-data POST over HTTPS (using TLS).

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require 'chilkat'

# This example assumes the Chilkat HTTP API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

# This example demonstrates how to send a multipart/form-data POST that
# looks like this:

# 	POST /cgi/XXX.pl HTTP/1.0
# 	Accept: text/html
# 	Connection: Keep-Alive
# 	User-Agent: XXX/8.0.15
# 	Content-type: multipart/form-data, boundary=XXXxyxy
# 	Content-Length: 682
# 
# 	--XXXxyxy
# 	content-disposition: form-data; name="UploadAgent"
# 
# 	InterfaceVersion1.5
# 	--XXXxyxy
# 	content-disposition: form-data; name="user"
# 
# 	userValue
# 	--XXXxyxy
# 	content-disposition: form-data; name="password"
# 
# 	passwordValue
# 	--XXXxyxy
# 	content-disposition: form-data; name="file"
# 
# 	fileValue
# 	--XXXxyxy
# 	content-disposition: form-data; name="data_version"
# 
# 	dataVersion
# 	--XXXxyxy
# 	content-disposition: form-data; name="content2"; filename="XXX"
# 
# 	THE FILE CONTENT GOES HERE...
# 	--XXXxyxy--
# 

# First, let's build the HTTP request object
req = Chilkat::CkHttpRequest.new()

req.put_HttpVerb("POST")
req.put_Path("/cgi/XXX.pl")

# The boundary string is automatically generated and added by Chilkat.
# The value for the boundary string doesn't matter. (As long as it's a unique string that doesn't occur elsewhere in the request.)
req.put_ContentType("multipart/form-data")

# Adding the Connection: Keep-Alive is optional.  It only makes sense if the intent is to send
# additional requests to the same domain (your-namespace-sb.accesscontrol.windows.net) within a reasonable time period.
req.AddHeader("Connection","Keep-Alive")

# --------------------------------------------------
# IMPORTANT: Never set the Content-Length header.  
# Chilkat will automatically compute the correct Content-Length and will add it.
# --------------------------------------------------

# If a specific User-Agent header field is needed, it can be added by calling AddHeader.
req.AddHeader("User-Agent","XXX/8.0.15")

# The "Accept" header, if present, tells the server what Content-Type responses will be accepted.
# In this case, we're telling the server that we'll only accept "text/html" responses, and therefore
# the server SHOULD only send a text/html response.  Technically, the Accept header is not required.
req.AddHeader("Accept","text/html")

# Add the params to the request.  Given that the Content-Type is set to "multipart/form-data", when
# Chilkat composes the request, it will put each param in it's own MIME sub-part (i.e. in it's own
# part delimited by the boundary string).
req.AddParam("UploadAgent","InterfaceVersion1.5")
req.AddParam("user","userValue")
req.AddParam("password","passwordValue")
req.AddParam("file","fileValue")
req.AddParam("data_version","dataVersion")

# The last param is the contents of a file.
# If it's a file on disk, we can add it like this:
pathToFileOnDisk = "c:/someDir/someFile.dat"
success = req.AddFileForUpload("content2",pathToFileOnDisk)
if (success != true)
    print req.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# Alternatively, if the contents of the file are in memory, perhaps in a string
# variable, the file can be added like this instead.
fileContents = "This is the content of the file being uploaded."
success = req.AddStringForUpload("content2","XXX",fileContents,"utf-8")

# -----------------------------------------------------------
# IMPORTANT: To duplicate the HTTP request shown above, you'll want to choose 
# either AddStringForUpload or AddFileForUpload, but not both.  It's possible to upload
# any number of files by calling AddStringForUpload and/or AddFileForUpload any number
# of times, once per file to be uploaded.  This of course assumes that the receiving
# end is programmed to receive multiple files..
# ------------------------------------------------------------

http = Chilkat::CkHttp.new()

# The request is ready... now send it using HTTPS (which is port 443 by default).

# resp is a CkHttpResponse
resp = http.SynchronousRequest("www.myserver.com",443,true,req)
if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "HTTP response status: " + resp.get_StatusCode().to_s() + "\n";

# In this case, the response would be HTML because our Accept header
# told the server to only return HTML.  The HTML is available on the BodyStr
# property of the response object:
htmlStr = resp.bodyStr()
print "Received:" + "\n";
print htmlStr + "\n";