From: Bob Gustafson <bobgus@...>
Date: 2001-09-28T11:58:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21791] Re: net/http problems on FreeBSD 4.4-RC

>Hi Jason,
>
>  In mail "[ruby-talk:21688] net/http problems on FreeBSD 4.4-RC"
>    Jason DiCioccio <geniusj@bluenugget.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm having the following problems with Net::HTTP on ruby 1.6.4 (and
>>1.6.5) on
>> FreeBSD 4.4-RC.. I suspect it to be a bug specific ruby on the platform
>>actually
>> since it works on my OS X box fine.
>
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:631:in `sysread': End of file
>>reached (EOFError)
>
>>   # Fetch the requested document
>>   h = Net::HTTP.new(host, port)
>>   h.use_ssl = true if scheme == "https" # enable SSL/TLS
>
>Hmm... I cannot reproduce this bug on my linux box.
>For the time being, try block form #start like the code below.
>
>    Net::HTTP.start(...) {|h|
>       ....
>    }
>
>I strongly suggest to call #start explicitly, with block, ALWAYS.
>I did not test implicit #start hardly so it might cause strange
>connection bugs.
>
>Minero Aoki

I'm having the same problem. It seemed to start up today (I installed 1.6.5
and reinstalled net-1.1.31 (which did not seem to change))

The line numbers are a bit different though.

I made other changes in my calling program, so it could be my problem. The
program sample/httpget.rb in the net-1.1.31 directory seems to work ok.

I will try the explicit #start - thanks for the clue.

BobG

---- my error traceback from earlier today --

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:551:in `sysread': End of file
reached (E
OFError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:551:in `fill_rbuf'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:496:in `readuntil'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:506:in `readline'