From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-04-11T07:08:23+09:00
Subject: Re: User Agent String

On Apr 10, 2008, at 07:56 AM, Ben Aroia wrote:
> I've tried the above with the following:
> user_agent = 'Ruby Net::HTTP'
> print "Getting h\n"
> h = Net::HTTP.new('http://www.google.com', 80)
> print "getting response\n"
> resp, data = h.get('/', {"User-Agent"=>user_agent})
> print data.body
> print resp
> print "should've printed\n"
>
> and all it gives me is:
> SocketError: getaddrinfo: No address associated with nodename

Net::HTTP#initialize takes a host and a port, not URI and port:

$ ruby
require 'net/http'
h = Net::HTTP.new 'google.com', 'http'
resp, data = h.get '/', "User-Agent" => "Ruby/#{RUBY_VERSION}"
p resp, data
#<Net::HTTPOK 200 OK readbody=true>
"[...]<input name=btnI type=submit value=\"I'm Feeling Lucky\">[...]"
$