From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2007-04-08T05:41:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to GET google with socket....problem


On Apr 7, 2007, at 13:28 , Hey You wrote:

> Well I don't know why the socket can't connect to Google. Here is my
> source code:
>
> require 'socket'
> h = TCPSocket.new('www.google.ca',80)
> h.print "GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\n\n"
> a = h.read
> puts a

If you just want to get google (or whatever), use:

	ruby -ropen-uri -e 'puts URI.parse("http://www.google.com/ 
index.html").read'

If you want to know the inner-workings of HTTP clients and servers,  
use the above and trace it backwards. There is a lot of good code in  
there.