Using NET to Post API Calls With or Without Secure Connections

Using Net module is the best and the eaiest ways to post data or make api calls to urls. Here’s an example

def post_using_net(url, params={})
  uri = URI.parse(url)
  http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
  http.use_ssl = true
  http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
  response = http.post(uri.request_uri, params.to_query)
  response
end

for connections that does not use ssl i.e (https) the following can be removed

  http.use_ssl = true
  http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

Net also handles get, put and delete, to make it work for muliple requests, just use a send to make calls to the methods

def send_using_net(method, url, params={})
  uri = URI.parse(url)
  http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
  http.use_ssl = true
  http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
  response = http.send method, [uri.request_uri, params.to_query]
  response
end

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