Jim,
One of them relys on cookies to get the data in a form I
can use. Net::HTTP appears not to use cookies, even if
you're inside the same .start block.
...
Is there a way to provide a cookie? I could likely
synthesize the information that the server was looking for.
A cookie is just another HTTP header, so you can add it manually in
the second parameter (headers) of Net::HTTP#get or Net::HTTP#post. The
format is pretty simple:
Cookie: $Version="1"; MyKey="MyValue"; $Path="/mypath"
See RFC2965 for the nitty-gritty details.
I hope this helps.
- Warren Brown