From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-06-29T01:27:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Bad file descriptor error using Net::HTTP

On Jun 28, 9:20 am, brian.wil.gre...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jun 28, 10:57 am, Daniel Berger <djber...@gmail.com> wrote:

<snip>

> > > 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
>
> Dan,
>
> Thanks. Here is the error I get when executing the above code:
>
> Timeout::Error (execution expired):
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:54:in `open'
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in `timeout'
>
> I know it's a valid URL. The page I am trying to access is sitting on
> the same box as my rails app.

That's peculiar. Firewall or proxy issue perhaps? Maybe you need
rubysspi?

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubysspi/

Otherwise, I'm at a loss.

Regards,

Dan