From: Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality <ihatespam@...>
Date: 2006-07-20T06:55:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Net/HTTP is flaky?


"Eric Hodel" <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote in message 
news:087CE005-B271-4B73-9C98-7DF62B1AC652@segment7.net...
>
> $ ruby -rnet/http
> Net::HTTP.start 'en.wikipedia.org' do |http| res = http.get '/'; p  res; 
> end
> #<Net::HTTPMovedPermanently 301 Moved Permanently readbody=true>
>
> Matches browser behavior.
>
>> Hell, "/" at "music.com" has _never_ worked and there doesn't  appear to
>> be any kind of redirect or anything.
>
> $ ruby -rnet/http
> Net::HTTP.start 'music.com' do |http| res = http.get '/'; p res; end
> #<Net::HTTPMovedPermanently 301 Moved Permanently readbody=true>
>
> Redirects to www.music.com in the browser, Net::HTTP matches browser 
> behavior.

    Okay, so the site doesn't exist where I think it does and I get 
redirected... in my browser.  Net::HTTP doesn't get redirected, it simply 
fails.  _This_ behaviour doesn't match my browser.  Is there any way I can 
get redirected or find out where it wants to redirect me and go there, 
myself?
    Thanks...