From: Karl-Heinz Wild <kh.wild@...>
Date: 2007-04-09T03:18:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to GET google with socket....problem


On 08.04.2007, at 16:42, Brian Candler wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 05:28:07AM +0900, 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
>>
>> I tried changing the HTTP to 1.1 but it still doesn't work.
>
> Two problems:
> (1) Line terminator for HTTP is \r\n not \n
> (2) You have not supplied a Host: header

This means too send something like

GET /index.html HTTP/1.1\r\n
Host: www.google.ca\r\n
\r\n
\r\n

Regards
Karl-Heinz