Rails active resource: how to send post parameters in the request body and not as query strings?

Question

I am calling some post request using rails activeresource, however all the parameters are sent as query string and the result is that the called url is too long and I get WEBrick::HTTPStatus::RequestURITooLarge exception.

So I need to send the parameters in the request body instead, however I couldn't find how to do this.

Thanks a lot

Post request data is sent in the request body already. Are you definitely doing a POST request? see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14551194/how-are-parameters-sent-in-an-http-post-request — Max Williams, Nov 19 '14 at 14:43

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 19 '14 at 20:25

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To send a post request in activeresource you should reference the documentation

For example you can do this

#Entity.post(custom_method_name, options = {}, body = '')
Company.post(:add_role, nil, {user_id: 1, role_id: 2}.to_json)

Tell me if you need anything else.

answered Nov 19 '14 at 20:25

khaled_gomaa

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No problem my friend. Rabena ma3ak – khaled_gomaa Nov 23 '14 at 19:08

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 19 '14 at 14:50

So, I think you are doing the post request within a link. Anchor by default will create the query parameter. But if you use button and that does send the data by default in post method send as request body like a form of post method. Please try out the following the code snippets:

button_to 'Your post requesting link name', something_path(:your_params => :will be here)

Let me know if this works!

Thanks.

score -1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:09

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Try to install thin server instead of Webrick, read these answer-1, answer-2.

Or, Add webrick.rb file to config\initializers directory, and add the following code:

if defined?(WEBrick::HTTPRequest)
  WEBrick::HTTPRequest.const_set("MAX_URI_LENGTH", 10240)
end

Rails active resource: how to send post parameters in the request body and not as query strings?

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