ruby - POSTing large amounts of data with HTTParty

Question

I'm using HTTParty to post information to a server using the following code:

this_component = {"name" => "something", "ip" => "localhost", "logs" => logs_to_push}
payload = {"payload" => JSON.dump(this_component)}
response = JSONClient.post("http://localhost:8080/log", :body => '', :query => payload)

The problem is that I get a Connection reset by peer (Errno::ECONNRESET) message when the POST actually executes, which I'm pretty sure is caused by my payload being too large (as logs_to_push is an array with ~200 log lines in it). How would I refactor the above so that I could push this data successfully?

Answer 1

So it turns out that for large amount of stuff, you should put the payload in :body and not :query. For future people that run into this problem, the correct code (working off the above example) would be:

this_component = {"name" => "something", "ip" => "localhost", "logs" => logs_to_push}
payload = {"body" => {"payload" => JSON.dump(this_component)}}
response = JSONClient.post("http://localhost:8080/log", payload)