From: Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Date: 2002-01-16T08:54:16+09:00
Subject: Re: grabbing stuff from web pages

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:06:28 GMT, Niklas Frykholm <niklas@kagi.com>
wrote:

>>>> I have not tested it, but RAA contains a library called WebFetcher
>>>> which is designed to ease this kind of things. I don't know if it will
>>>> solve the 'Error 302' issue though.
>> >
>> >Yes it does. I'm the author so I should know ;)
>> 
>> Did that, but it doesn't work on my machine ... says this:
>> 
>> GET http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201708426/
>> /cygdrive/c/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/webfetcher.rb:413:in
>> `fetch_1_1': undefined method `response' for
>> #<Net::ProtoRetriableError:0xa123530> (NameError)
>
>Hmm... someone else reported a similar error, but I have been unable to
>reproduce it. The code in my post runs fine for me under 1.6.6, 1.6.5
>and 1.7.1 (2001-10-22). 
>
>I would like to get this bug fixed. Which version of ruby are you running?

1.6.4. Time to upgrade anyway I spose ... what would you like me to try?
(Don't make it anything hard, I may be old but I'm a Rewbie Newbie.)

Ronald E Jeffries
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