From: Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@...>
Date: 2005-04-25T23:28:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Proxy Server troubles

On 4/25/05, Craig Moran <craig.m.moran.ruby@gmail.com> wrote:
> I neglected to mention that if you use the proxy version of Net::HTTP,
> you can get it to work without a proxy by putting in "" for the proxy
> and port.  Here's the proxy version:
> 
> net = Net::HTTP::Proxy("proxy", "80").start(host)
> 
> and the non-proxy version:
> 
> net = Net::HTTP::Proxy("", "").start(host)

This hangs until the timeout is reached.  But if I use nil instead of
empty string it continues, but still fails loading correctly in the
browser.  But I think it may have to do with the headers sent with a
proxied request, can you send me the sent headers portion of the
output when used with a working proxy server?

> 
> HTH,
> Craig