From: Pradeepta Swain Date: 2007-12-24T17:39:49+09:00 Subject: Still cannot connect to http I m still getting the error . I am new to ruby . I am using ruby 1.8.4 on windows XP platform . please tell me in detail how to make http connection .I am getting error like : c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize': Bad file descriptor - connect(2) (Errno::EBADF) from c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect' from c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:48:in `timeout' from c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout' from c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect' from c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in `do_start' from c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:in `start' from t2.rb:4 and my code is : require 'net/http' require 'rubygems' Net::HTTP.start('www.rubyinside.com') do |http| req = Net::HTTP::Get.new('/test.txt') puts http.request(req).body end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.