From: Jonathan Feinberg <jdf@...>
Date: 2001-02-25T17:10:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11515] TCPsocket broken on Win2k?

Any attempt to use get() or post() in Net::HTTP results in

  /h/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:427:in `new': 
      Invalid argument - "connect(2)" (Errno::EINVAL)

Here is a simple example, which causes the above error:

   #! /usr/bin/env ruby

   require 'net/http'

   http = Net::HTTP.new(address = 'www.pragmaticprogrammer.com')
   begin
     response, body = http.get('/index.html')
     puts body
   rescue Net::ProtoRetriableError => err
     err.data.each { |k,v| puts "#{k} #{v}" }
   end

I am using the 1.6.2-3 release from the Pragmatic site.  I am not
using RubyWin.  I have seen several threads at groups.google.com
concerning this problem, but with no mention of a fix.  Any clues
floating about?

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