From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2004-03-05T20:02:05+09:00
Subject: Re: problem with Net::HTTP in 1.8.1

On Fri 05 Mar 2004 at 19:38:42 +0900, Minero Aoki wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   In mail "Re: problem with Net::HTTP in 1.8.1"
>     Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org> wrote:
> 
> > > >   puts response.header
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > This causes the following bogus message to be printed indefinitely:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Use HTTPResponse#[] to access header fields.
> If you want to get all fields at once, try #to_hash.
> 
> HTTPResponse#header is a very old method and is deprecated.
> Its name is really misunderstanding, but it is needed to
> keep backward compatibility.

Thanks for the help.

Ian
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