From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-04-15T02:59:07+09:00
Subject: Re: GET doesnt seem to work in this case.

|MKSM| wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to grab some info off www.yellowbook.com for a specific city.
> 
> While testing a simple program to just grab the index page i couldnt
> manage to get it working. Here's what i have so far.
> 
> http = Net::HTTP.new('www.yellowbook.com', 80)
> res = http.send_request('GET', '/')
> p res.body
> 
> I get a object moved page all the time. I tested it with my browser
> and it works perfectly. Could anyone kindly point what im doing wrong
> here? Perhaps this method is not appropriate for this  task...

I think your browser is automatically handling the "object moved" 
response and issuing a second request to the new URL.

Your client code will either have to parse the response and make a new 
request if it gets a "moved" response, or you can just use that new URL 
as the the starting point.


-- 
James Britt

�Design depends largely on constraints.�
  � Charles Eames