From: Ralph Mason <ralph.mason@...>
Date: 2001-12-09T03:46:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27962] Re: Dictionary.com speeder upper -- Win2k problem

Actually, just looking at this again.  Something strange is going on.

The Message I send had www.dictionary.com in it, the one that went to the
list had that also but the one that ended up on the newsgroup was missing
the '.' (ie wwwdictionary.com)

Any thoughts Mr Thomas?

Ralph

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Mason" <ralph.mason@telogis.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 7:41 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:27960] Re: Dictionary.com speeder upper -- Win2k problem


> I note in the code here you have gone to
>
> wwwdictionary.com
>
> rather than
>
> www.dictionary.com
>
> Ralph
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients:>
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 7:37 AM
> Subject: [ruby-talk:27957] Re: Dictionary.com speeder upper -- Win2k
problem
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have problems running this on MS Win2k, using
> > ruby 1.6.5 (2001-09-19) [i386-cygwin].
> >
> > I turned off the add-blocker filter, and told ZoneAlarm to let ruby talk
> to
> > the outside world.
> >
> > After "a =
> > Net::HTTP.get("wwwdictionary.com","/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=#{ARGV[0]}")"
> runs,
> > I get back a bunch of HTML with the following seemingly relevant bits of
> > text:
> >
> >   "The page cannot be displayed"
> >   "HTTP 403.1 Forbidden: Execute Access Forbidden"
> >   "Internet Information Services"
> >   "You have attempted to execute a CGI, ISAPI, or other executable
program
> > from a directory that does not allow programs to be executed."
> >
> > Well, that's not exactly helpful news to me. I don't know what to make
of
> > this or what to do about it. Any suggestions from the experts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Conrad
> >
> >
> >
>
>