def pbPostData(url, postdata, filename = nil, depth = 0)

if url[/^http:\/\/([^\/]+)(.*)$/]
host = $1
# path = $2
# path = "/" if path.length == 0
userAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14)
Gecko/2009082707 Firefox/3.0.14"
body = postdata.map { |key, value|
keyString = key.to_s
valueString = value.to_s
keyString.gsub!(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-]/n) { |s| sprintf("%%%02x", s[0]) }
valueString.gsub!(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-]/n) { |s| sprintf("%%%02x", s[0]) }
next "#{keyString}=#{valueString}"
}.join("&")
ret = HTTPLite.post_body(
url,
body,
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
{
"Host" => host, # might not be necessary
"Proxy-Connection" => "Close",
"Content-Length" => body.bytesize.to_s,
"Pragma" => "no-cache",
"User-Agent" => userAgent
}
) rescue ""
return ret if !ret.is_a?(Hash)
return "" if ret[:status] != 200
return ret[:body] if !filename
File.open(filename, "wb") { |f| f.write(ret[:body]) }
return ""
end
return ""
end

def pbDownloadData(url, filename = nil, authorization = nil, depth = 0, &block)

headers = {
"Proxy-Connection" => "Close",
"Pragma" => "no-cache",
"User-Agent" => "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14)
Gecko/2009082707 Firefox/3.0.14"
}
headers["authorization"] = authorization if authorization
ret = HTTPLite.get(url, headers) rescue ""
return ret if !ret.is_a?(Hash)
return "" if ret[:status] != 200
return ret[:body] if !filename
File.open(filename, "wb") { |f| f.write(ret[:body]) }
return ""
end

def pbDownloadToString(url)
begin
data = pbDownloadData(url)
return data
rescue
return ""
end
end
def pbDownloadToFile(url, file)
begin
pbDownloadData(url, file)
rescue
end
end

def pbPostToString(url, postdata)

begin
data = pbPostData(url, postdata)
return data
rescue
return ""
end
end

def pbPostToFile(url, postdata, file)

begin
pbPostData(url, postdata, file)
rescue
end
end