From: Joseph Pecoraro <joepeck02@...>
Date: 2008-01-28T13:42:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Extracting Data from a Webpage

7stud -- wrote:
> Nice.  I tested your code and it works for me.  But my reading of the 
> docs says that it shouldn't work:  new() doesn't open a connection, and 
> get(), "Gets data from path on the connected-to host."   The docs seem 
> to want you to do something like:
> 
> resp_obj = Net::HTTP.get_response('http://www.google.com', 
> '/index.html')
> page = resp_obj.body

Reading the Net::HTTP docs here:
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/classes/Net/HTTP.html#M001127

It says that Net::HTTP#get will:
"Send a GET request to the target and return the response as a string"

and Net::HTTP#get_response will:
"Send a GET request to the target and return the response as a 
Net::HTTPResponse object"

The #new in this case is optional because both methods are class methods 
or instance methods?  Someone might be able to clarify this a part a 
little more.  But the examples at that doc url don't even use 
New::HTTP#new.
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