From: akanksha <akanksha.baid@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T08:50:05+09:00
Subject: open-uri question

I am using open-uri for the first time. I need to visit a bunch of urls
and gather some data. Here is a samll code snippet

require 'open-uri' # allows the use of a file like API for URLs
open( "http://no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com/") { |file|
  lines = file.read
  puts lines
}

and here is the error I get
 ruby test.rb
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:290:in `open_http': 500 Internal
Server Error (OpenURI::HTTPError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:629:in `buffer_open'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:167:in `open_loop'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:165:in `open_loop'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:135:in `open_uri'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:531:in `open'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:86:in `open'
        from test.rb:2

However
 require 'open-uri' # allows the use of a file like API for URLs
open( "http://www.google.com/") { |file|
  lines = file.read
  puts lines
} 

works just fine. What am I doing wrong??