From: Assaph Mehr <assaph@...>
Date: 2005-04-07T12:59:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner Question with Net::Proxy


> class PubMed
>
>   attr_reader :proxy_addr, :proxy_port, :proxy
>
>   def initialize
>     @einfo =
"http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/einfo.fcgi"
>     @proxy_addr = "proxy"  # this is my local proxy
>     @proxy_port = 80
>     @proxy = Net::HTTP::Proxy(@proxy_address, @proxy_port)
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Surely you meant @proxy_addr ?...


>   end
>
>   def query(base, cgi_args)
>     uri = URI.parse(base)
>     cgi_arg_list = cgi_args.collect { |h,v| h + "=" + CGI.escape(v) }
>     uri.query = cgi_arg_list.join("&")
>
>     puts "Fetching .... " + uri.to_s
>     @proxy.start(uri.host, uri.port) { |http|

of these lines:

>       resp = @proxy.get(uri.path + "?" + uri.query)
>       puts resp.class
>       resp = http.get(uri)

you dont need this line - you should only use the http object.
        resp = http.get(uri.path + "?" + uri.query)
        puts resp.class


HTH,
Assaph