From: Michael Boutros Date: 2008-05-07T09:34:33+09:00 Subject: Re: SocketError: getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided Try this: require 'net/http' Net::HTTP.start('www.google.com') do |http| response = http.get('/') puts response end #start doesn't take the protocol. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.