rbkb-http¶ ↑

HTTP protocol addons for the Ruby BlackBag (rbkb-http)

• github.com/emonti/rbkb-http

This library includes HTTP protocol tools and libraries based on and complementary to the Ruby BlackBag library.

At it’s core rbkb-http is simply a set of serializable and desieralizable objects for HTTP request and response messages.

• ruby blackbag (rbkb) - emonti.github.com/rbkb

require 'rubygems'
require 'rbkb/http'

# we start with a raw HTTP request string
rawdat = "POST /foo HTTP/1.0
Content-Length: 10

a=12345678"

# ... which we parse into an abstract object
req = Rbkb::Http::Request.new()
req.capture(rawdat) 

# Or you could just say this in one shot
#req = Rbkb::Http::Request.parse(rawdat)

# now we can mess with the request body
req.body << "extrastuff"

# .. and/or action line
req.action.version="HTTP/1.1"

# ... and/or headers
req.headers.set_header("Host", "somehost.com")

# and spit out a new request string (content-length is auto-calculated!)
puts req.to_raw
-/snip-

Which produces:

POST /foo HTTP/1.1
Content-Length: 20
Host: somehost.com

a=12345678extrastuff

Copyright © 2009 Eric Monti. See LICENSE for details.