From: Chris Pearl <chrispearl@...>
Date: 2006-12-01T10:18:42+09:00
Subject: Re: open-uril ECONNREFUSED problem

WFM.

Appearantly the Yahoo server is refusing connections from your
development box (maybe too much testing on your part? ;-)

On 12/1/06, Cyrus Ghalambor <cyrusg@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm working on a simple scraping tool and the open() method has suddenly
> stopped working! This 2 line program fails with a ECONNREFUSED exception
> in open-uri:
>
> require "open-uri"
> open("http://www.yahoo.com")
>
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:134:in `open_uri'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:424:in `open'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:85:in `open'
>         from /Users/cyrus/Desktop/test.rb:3
>
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:41:in `initialize'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:83:in `new'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:83:in `connect'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:82:in `timeout'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:55:in `timeout'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:82:in `connect'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:64:in `initialize'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:430:in `open'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:430:in `do_start'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:419:in `start'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:324:in `start'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:544:in `proxy_open'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:525:in `direct_open'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:169:in `open_loop'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in `catch'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in `open_loop'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:134:in `open_uri'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:424:in `open'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:85:in `open'
> /Users/cyrus/Desktop/test.rb:3
>
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