From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2008-06-06T23:19:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Net/http and redirects

On Jun 6, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Per Christian Viken wrote:
> On 6/6/08, Srijayanth Sridhar <srijayanth@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I wrote this piece of code: http://pastebin.com/m138ec5e4
>>
>> I was looking at the examples posted on:
>> http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=93164&topic=11369
>>
>> The problem seems to be that google is somehow redirecting and net
>> http isn't following. Is this known behaviour? If so is there a way
>> around it?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Jayanth
>>
>
> The documentation for Net::HTTP
> (http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html) has a
> section on following redirects. That might be of interest.


If you want automatic following of redirects, perhaps you want the  
httpclient gem rather than Net::HTTP directly.  With Net::HTTP, you'd  
have to recognize and follow the redirect explicitly.

-Rob

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