From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2009-02-04T11:24:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Net/HTTP get

On Feb 3, 8:47 pm, Tim Mcd <tmcdow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> doc = Hpricot(open("http://redhanded.hobix.com/index.html"))
> images = (doc/"img")
> count = 0
>
> Net::HTTP.start("redhanded.hobix.com") do |http|
>   images.each do |img|
>     filename = img['src'].match(/([^\/]+\..+)/)
>     resp = http.get("#{img["src"]}")

If it's a full URL then you just have to create a uri object:
http.get(URI.parse(img['src']))

- Mark.