From: "Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" Date: 2004-08-03T09:41:19+09:00 Subject: Re: [Q] Rubygems > Hi. This is due to a bug in open-uri on Ruby 1.8.1. > Can you try with the latest Ruby stable snapshot? Or just copy over the open-uri.rb and net/*.rb from the latest snapshot over your regular 1.8.1 installation. Works for me :-)