Feature #7684: Net::HTTPHeader#set_form_data should accept a String

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: naruse (Yui NARUSE)
• Target version: 2.6

[postmodern (Hal Brodigan)]

I noticed that Net::HTTPHeader#set_form_data does not accept already encoded form-data, but instead passes an Array/Hash down to URI.encode_www_form.

[injekt (Lee Jarvis)]

• File set_form_data_string.diff set_form_data_string.diff added

You could just set the content body yourself. But I see no reason why set_form_data shouldn't accept a string either

[ko1 (Koichi Sasada)]

• Assignee set to naruse (Yui NARUSE)
• Target version set to 2.6

Is it a feature request?

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Tracker changed from Bug to Feature

If it didn't work this way before I think it is a feature request.

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

Such backdoor breaks the convention that this method returns a valid application/x-www-form-urlencoded string.

You should set it directly to body.