From: hweeboon@...
Date: 2005-05-02T15:54:26+09:00
Subject: Error while running gem update

I've just installed Ruby 1.8.2 on Mac OS X Panther, followed by RubyGem
0.8.10.1. When I try to run "gem update" or "sudo gem update" I get the
following error:

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ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::ECONNRESET)
    Connection reset by peer
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I re-ran it and with the option --backtrace* and traced the offending
lines to:

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def read_size(uri)
      require 'net/http'
      require 'uri'
      u = URI.parse(uri)
      http = connect_to(u.host, u.port)
      path = (u.path == "") ? "/" : u.path
      resp = http.head(path)
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Now I start up irb and run

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h = Net::HTTP.new("gems.rubyforge.org", 80)
r=h.head('/yaml')
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I get the same error as above. And if I run the following, I get a good
response:

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h = Net::HTTP.new("motionobj.com", 80)
r=h.head('/index.htm')
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I'm not behind a proxy and I can access http://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml
with a browser (Safari). Does anyone know why? Thanks.


* why are the options specified at the end of the line instead of after
the command? Took me a while to realise that...


HweeBoon