From: Paul Lutus Date: 2006-12-01T11:20:10+09:00 Subject: Re: open-uri ECONNREFUSED problem Cyrus Ghalambor wrote: > The following still has the same problem: > > open("http://www.google.com", "User-Agent" => "Mozilla/4.0") Have you tried rebooting your computer? Has a similar connection attempt worked before today? Have you reconfigured your network recently? Have you tried pinging the site by IP and by name in a console? -- Paul Lutus http://www.arachnoid.com