From: "Matt T." <magicmat@...>
Date: 2006-01-25T00:55:49+09:00
Subject: Problems with Net/HTTP

Good evening,

I'm having problems with Net/HTTP, in that it never seems to be able to
complete a connection. I posted about a related problem a little bit
ago
(http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/78e12ac0a2a23f7b/696843dea30f1647)
but I didn't solve the problem, and since then I've narrowed down the
cause.

>From looking at Ethereal, it seems like the file is being downloaded
completely, but the connection never seems to end (or at least Net/HTTP
never recognizes it as ending.) When I try a simple
"Net::HTTP.get_print URI.parse('http://www.google.com/')", Ruby hangs
with no output and the aforementioned network activity. Even CTRL+C
wont end it, I have to close the cmd.exe instance to get it to end. I
have an Ethereal capture of the data in questions here(libpcap format):
http://www.overblown.net/nethttp_problem.cap .

I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2 with One-Click Ruby 1.8.2-15. It's a
fairly fresh install of both products, too. I've tried uninstalling and
then re-installing Ruby, with no luck. I'm behind a Linux NAT gateway,
but I doubt that's the trouble since every other network device behind
it is operating fine, and my old computer used to run Net/HTTP just
fine behind the very same gateway. So far as I can tell, Ruby is the
only thing having any sort of trouble. There is nothing of note or out
of the ordinary about my machine I can think of. It's a vanilla Windows
install, a vanilla Ruby install and, like I said, my old computer with
the same network connection, NIC, IP address and everything else ran
Ruby just fine.

I'm really stumped as to what can be going wrong. And since Net/HTTP is
a C extension, it's difficult to debug for me. Does anybody have any
idea what's going wrong or how can I fix it?

Thank you for your help,
-Matt