From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-01-13T05:56:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with open-uri

On 1/12/07, David Sulc <davidsulc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I'm unable to open certain URIs with open-uri. Here is the code :
>
>   require 'rexml/document'
>   require 'open-uri'
>   xml = REXML::Document.new(open("http://myoms.net/soap/oms2.wsdl"))
>
> The error I get is :
>
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb:133:in `stream=': Tempfile
> is not a valid input stream.  It must be  (RuntimeError)
> either a String, IO, StringIO or Source.
>
> I have tried to "cast" the parameter to IO with to_io, but it still
> doesn't work. Any ideas ?

if it works on strings just do

open("http://myurl.com").read