From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-08-10T17:13:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP works on localhost, but error Errno::ECONNRESET

2007/8/10, Caleb Mei <tommy_tam@intuit.com>:
> Hi All,
>
> Newbie here, on XP with Ruby 1.8.6.25, I am trying to post a request to
> an external service basic HTTP/XML Form Post. I have tried multiple
> test, but getting this error,
>
> Errno::ECONNRESET (An existing connection was forcibly closed by the
> remote host.):
>     c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133:in `sysread'
>     c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133:in `rbuf_fill'
>
> The code,
>     url = URI.parse('http://www.yahoo.com') # not working
>     url = URI.parse('http://localhost:8080/default.txt') # working fine
>
>     http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host)
>     puts "===== Begin ======"
>     puts url.path
>     puts url.host
>     puts url.port
>
>     res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) {|http|
>       http.get('/index.htm')
>     }
>     puts res.body
>     @result = res.body
>     puts "===== End ======"
>
> No proxy. Downloading 1.8.5 to give it a try.
>
> Anyone experience similar issue? Recommendation to use other library to
> make HTTP/XML call?
>
> Really appreciated!

The first thing I would make sure is that there are no network issues
(corporate firewall killing off the connection).

Kind regards

robert