From: Brian Candler Date: 2009-03-27T23:50:39+09:00 Subject: Re: https html parsing Arun Kumar wrote: > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize': getaddrinfo: Name or > service not known (SocketError) ... > from example.rb:5 > This is the error which i get now when i use 'net/http'. This error isn't useful unless you also post your example.rb Note that in order to talk to a https server, you will need net/https not net/http. In some distributions (e.g. Ubuntu) you won't have net/https.rb until you install another package. For Ubuntu, apt-get install libopenssl-ruby -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.