From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2008-02-04T01:15:28+09:00
Subject: open-uri problem in 1.9 stops gems from working

For at least the last week, 1.9 HEAD has been unable to install gems.  
The problem seems to be with open-uri:


irb(main):002:0> f = open("http://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml")
NoMethodError: undefined method `[]=' for nil:NilClass
	from /usr/local/rubybook/lib/ruby/1.9.0/open-uri.rb:411:in  
`meta_add_field'
	from /usr/local/rubybook/lib/ruby/1.9.0/open-uri.rb:326:in `block in  
open_http'
	from /usr/local/rubybook/lib/ruby/1.9.0/net/http.rb:1297:in `block in  
each_header'
	from /usr/local/rubybook/lib/ruby/1.9.0/net/http.rb:1296:in `each'
	from /usr/local/rubybook/lib/ruby/1.9.0/net/http.rb:1296:in  
`each_header'
	from /usr/local/rubybook/lib/ruby/1.9.0/open-uri.rb:326:in `open_http'
	from /usr/local/rubybook/lib/ruby/1.9.0/open-uri.rb:735:in  
`buffer_open'
	from /usr/local/rubybook/lib/ruby/1.9.0/open-uri.rb:197:in `block in  
open_loop'
	from /usr/local/rubybook/lib/ruby/1.9.0/open-uri.rb:195:in `catch'
	from /usr/local/rubybook/lib/ruby/1.9.0/open-uri.rb:195:in `open_loop'
	from /usr/local/rubybook/lib/ruby/1.9.0/open-uri.rb:141:in `open_uri'
	from /usr/local/rubybook/lib/ruby/1.9.0/open-uri.rb:637:in `open'
	from /usr/local/rubybook/lib/ruby/1.9.0/open-uri.rb:33:in `open'