From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-01-28T10:13:28+09:00
Subject: Net::HTTP Closes STDIN

Kenneth Kalmer has brought up a HighLine issue and I'm trying to look  
into it.  Oddly, it seems to happen when interacting with the  
Net::HTTP library.  I've narrowed it done to the following example on  
my box:

$ cat stdin_closed_issue.rb
require 'net/http'
require 'io/wait'

Net::HTTP.start('www.ruby-lang.org', 80) do |http|
   body = http.get('/en/license.txt').body
end
p $stdin.eof?
$ ruby stdin_closed_issue.rb
true

Can anyone explain why $stdin is closed after the page read?

James Edward Gray II