From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T09:11:00+09:00
Subject: Re: open-uri question

akanksha wrote:
> 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)
<snip>
> works just fine. What am I doing wrong??

Nothing, from the looks of your code.  The server's returning an error 
message, which could (I guess) be something to do with cookies. 
Mechanize has no problems with that site, anyway.  I'd suggest using that.

-- 
Alex