From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2004-03-05T19:16:41+09:00
Subject: Re: problem with Net::HTTP in 1.8.1

On Fri 05 Mar 2004 at 09:10:06 +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> At Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:53:38 +0900,
> Ian Macdonald wrote in [ruby-core:02577]:
> > The following code seems to cause an infinite loop:
> > 
> >   #!/usr/bin/ruby -w
> >   
> >   require 'net/http'
> >   
> >   http = Net::HTTP.start('www.google.com', 80)
> >   
> >   response = http.get('/')
> >   puts response.header
> > 
> > 
> > This causes the following bogus message to be printed indefinitely:
> > 
> > net/http.rb: warning: Net::HTTP v1.1 style assignment found at ./foo:8:in `puts'; use `response = http.get(...)' instead.
> 
> HTTPResponse#to_ary returns an array contains itself, and #puts
> tries to traverse it and causes infinite recursion.
> 
> In the meantime, the following patch could get rid of the
> problem.

The patch fixes the recursive error, but I still can't get access to the
@header hash. It seems that trying to read @header returns self, so that
I end up with .header.header.header, etc. and can't actually dereference
the hash.

Ian
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