From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2005-11-29T05:41:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem fetching web-page

On 11/28/05, James Mulholland <james.mulholland@gmail.com> wrote:

> That looks like (I'm guessing) some kind of return message from a
> load-balancer or other proxy. I've tried this from 3 different systems
> (which use different ISPs) so I don't think it's my system.

Using open-uri, this is what I get:

irb(main):001:0> require 'open-uri'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> open('http://www.digg.com').read
OpenURI::HTTPError: 403 Forbidden
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:574:in `proxy_open'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:525:in `direct_open'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:169:in `open_loop'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in `catch'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in `open_loop'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:134:in `open_uri'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:424:in `open'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:85:in `open'
        from (irb):2