From: Brian Candler Date: 2007-04-08T16:49:40+09:00 Subject: Re: How do you post data with a socket? On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:37:31AM +0900, Hey You wrote: > Thank you for the great response and I know how to post data with > Net::HTTP and WWW::Mechanize is great but I wanted something more > challenging and it seems that sockets are faster in speed. Errm: 1. You want to write a program, in Ruby, which sends HTTP requests down a socket and parses the responses. 2. Net::HTTP *is* a program written in Ruby which sends HTTP requests down a socket and parses the responses. So why do you think (1) would be faster than (2) ? B.