From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-03-03T20:40:28-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01711] [Ruby] net/http requires an explicit call to Protocol#start

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.lang.misc as well.


I don't know if this is intended or not, but to use net/http, you have 
to do

   h = Net::HTTP.new('host')
   h.start
   h.get('....')

The code in Net::HTTP#connecting handles the case where a socket is
closed, attempting to reopen it, but doesn't seem to handle the case
where a socket has not yet been created (hence the call to .start). Is 
this deliberate?

Dave