From: Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Date: 2005-05-07T23:45:14+09:00
Subject: Re: HTTP Proxy problem

Hi,

  In mail "HTTP Proxy problem"
  "Joe Mitchell" <joe.mitchell@am.sony.com> wrote:

> I'm having trouble getting Proxy to work properly within our corporate
> firewall. I've validated the proxy settings. Mozilla is able to reach
> the Internet just fine using the specified proxy, but my demo Ruby app
> is not.

> Here is what I'm running:
> 
> require 'net/http'
> h =
> Net::HTTP::Proxy('http://proxy-sd.am.sony.com/proxy/proxy.pac',8080)

remove "http://".  Net::HTTP::Proxy requires hostname, not URI.

Regards,
Minero Aoki