From: Rasmus Debitsch <Debitsch@...>
Date: 2005-08-19T00:01:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Geturl with net/http package

Now it works. Sometimes it is so easy.
Thanks,
Rasmus

"Mohit Muthanna" <mohit.muthanna@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:fdb3980a05081713547af1fd61@mail.gmail.com...
Remove the 'http://' from the 'server' variable.

On 8/17/05, Rasmus Debitsch <Debitsch@t-online.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to retrieve an image from the world wind server using the Ruby http
> package. But I can't get it work. In tcl/tk it works like this:
>
> package require http
> set url "http://data.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/t?T=105&L=0&X=81&Y=48"
> set token [::http:geturl $url]
> upvar #0 $token state
>
> and the jpeg image is in the state(body) variable. Using Ruby I expected
> something like this:
>
> require 'net/http'
> server = 'http://data.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov'
> request = '/t?T=105&L=0&X=81&Y=48'
> http = Net::HTTP.new(server)
> http.start
> resp,data = http.get(request, nil)
> http.finish
>
> But http.start returns "SocketError: getaddrinfo: no address associated 
> with
> hostname." always. Is there a command like geturl in the net/http package?
> --
> Rasmus
>
>
>
>


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