From: Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>
Date: 2007-01-13T06:06:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with open-uri

xml = REXML::Document.new(open("http://myoms.net/soap/oms2.wsdl")*.read*)

Try that.

Dan

Gregory Brown wrote:
> 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
> 
>