From: Zephyr Pellerin <zephyr.pellerin@...>
Date: 2007-04-09T05:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to GET google with socket....problem

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
> 
> h.print "GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: www.google.ca\r\n\r\n"
> 
> I say again: you must read and understand RFC 2616.
> 
> This documents HTTP/1.1, which has gained a lot of features. You could try
> reading the earlier RFCs for HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/0.9 for a simplified protocol.
> 
> B.
> 
That would be the issue.