[RUBY] Fire and Forget HTTP Request with Net::HTTP

fire_and_forget_http_client.rb

require 'net/https'
require 'json'

class Net::HTTPGenericRequest
       #overriding request execution on Net::HTTP
	def exec(sock, ver, path)
	    custom_request_method sock, ver, path, @body
	end

	private
        #method to write request header and body on the socket and close.
	def custom_request_method(sock, ver, path, body)
	    self.content_length = body.bytesize
	    delete 'Transfer-Encoding'
	    supply_default_content_type
	    write_header sock, ver, path
	    sock.write body
	    sock.close
  	end
end

end_url = URI.parse "https://httpbin.org/post"
payload = {id: 1}
http = Net::HTTP.new(end_url.host, end_url.port)
# http.use_ssl = true #uncomment to enable ssl.
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(end_url.request_uri) #making a POST req for this example.
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = payload.to_json
begin
	http.request(request)
rescue IOError
	p "Socket closed after firing request."
rescue Exception => e
	p "Error on HTTP request - #{e.message}"
end