From: Niklas Frykholm <niklas@...>
Date: 2002-01-16T09:25:56+09:00
Subject: Re: grabbing stuff from web pages

[Ron Jeffries]:
>>> 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)

>>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.)

Hopefully you won't have to try anything. I think I have squashed the
bug. It seems that a method in Net::ProtoRetriableError was renamed from
#data to #response between 1.6.4 and 1.6.5.

I have created a new version (0.5.4) of the module which uses #data if
#response is not available. It should work with ruby 1.6.4. You can
download it at:

    http://www.acc.umu.se/~r2d2/programming/ruby/webfetcher/

// Niklas