EOFError: end of file reached about multipart-post HOT 5 CLOSED

I had the same error so I broke down the code and stuck in a trace, similar to this:

url = URI.parse('http://www.imageshack.us/upload_api.php')
file = 'c:/x.jpg'
io = UploadIO.new(jpg, "image/jpeg", 'c:/x.jpg')
req = Net::HTTP::Post::Multipart.new url.path, io
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.set_debug_output $stderr if true  # dump out stuff
res = http.start { |http| http.request(req) }
puts res

My problem occurred because I was posting via https - http worked fine - which I resolved by adding this line to the above code, before the 'http.start' line:

require 'net/https'
http.use_ssl = url.port == 443

Hope this helps.

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This helped ;)
If someone has a better solution I'm open for proposal, but here is my final implementation.
It handles redirection and save the file into a temp file that is returned (unclosed)

   require 'uri'
   require 'net/http'
   require 'net/https'
   def http_fetch( uri_str, temp_file_name, limit = 10 )
     # You should choose better exception.
     raise ArgumentError, 'HTTP redirect too deep' if limit == 0

     url = URI.parse( uri_str )

     req = Net::HTTP::Get.new url.path

     http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
     if url.scheme == "https"
       http.use_ssl = url.port == 443
     end

     #http.set_debug_output $stderr if true  # dump out stuff
     begin
       response = http.start { |http| http.request(req) }
       case response
       when Net::HTTPRedirection 
       then
         http_fetch(response['location'], temp_file_name, limit - 1 )

       when Net::HTTPSuccess
       then
         file = ::Tempfile.new( temp_file_name )
         file.binmode
         file.unlink
         file.write( response.body )
         file.rewind
         file
       else
         response.error!
       end
     end
   rescue EOFError
     # Reached the end of the response
   end

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Can you please confirm if this is still an issue?

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I tried all the above methods to no avail ... does anyone know what the real problem is ... looks like in this context does not have anything to do with net/http(s) because I see this error on following line:

file = 'iron_man.jpg'
io = UploadIO.new(file, 'image/jpeg')

do we know why is that happening?

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What error are you seeing?

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