From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-06-28T23:57:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Bad file descriptor error using Net::HTTP



On Jun 28, 8:20 am, brian.wil.gre...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am trying to access a .net page via my ruby app and pass it a couple
> parameters. Every thing I have tried has resulted in this Bad file
> descriptor, I am wondering if it is something wrong with my
> configuration, not the code. Here is the code that is causing
> problems:
>
> Net::HTTP.version_1_2
>     Net::HTTP.start('www.url.com', 80) {
>      |http|
>      response =
>         http.post('/DoSomething.aspx',
> 'id=#{params[:id]}&path=#{params[:imagerecord]}',
>                   { 'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-
> urlencoded' })
>      puts response.body()
>    }
>
> Here is the error I get:
>
> Errno::EBADF (Bad file descriptor - connect(2)):
>     c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize'
>     c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect'
>     c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:48:in `timeout'
>     c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout'
>     c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect'
>     c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in `do_start'
>     c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:in `start'
>     c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:440:in `start'
>
> I am on Windows 2003 serer with Ruby 1.8.4 and Mongrel. Any help would
> be greatly appreciated.

Line 560 of net/http.rb is this:

s = timeout(@open_timeout) { TCPSocket.open(conn_address(),
conn_port()) }

What happens when you run this standalone snippet?

require 'socket'
require 'timeout'

s = Timeout.timeout(5){
   TCPSocket.open(url, 80)
}

p s

s.close

Regards,

Dan