Ruby mechanize post with header

Question

I have page with js that post data via XMLHttpRequest and server side script check for this header, how to send this header?

agent = WWW::Mechanize.new { |a|
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Answer 1

Take a look at the documentation.

You need to either monkey-patch or derive your own class from WWW::Mechanize to override the post method so that custom headers are passed through to the private method post_form.

For example,

class WWW::Mechanize
  def post(url, query= {}, headers = {})
    node = {}
    # Create a fake form
    class << node
      def search(*args); []; end
    end
    node['method'] = 'POST'
    node['enctype'] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

    form = Form.new(node)
    query.each { |k,v|
      if v.is_a?(IO)
        form.enctype = 'multipart/form-data'
        ul = Form::FileUpload.new(k.to_s,::File.basename(v.path))
        ul.file_data = v.read
        form.file_uploads << ul
      else
        form.fields << Form::Field.new(k.to_s,v)
      end
    }
    post_form(url, form, headers)
  end
end

agent = WWW::Mechanize.new

agent.post(URL,POSTDATA,{'custom-header' => 'custom'}) do |page|
    p page
end