From: Douglas Seifert <doug@...>
Date: 2009-10-03T00:30:33+09:00
Subject: Re: socket error handling... Net http

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>
> loop {
> res =
> Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse('http://bigmac.t35.com/text.txt'<http://bigmac.t35.com/text.txt%27>
> ))
> print res.body
> sleep 3
> }
>
>
> this loop brakes when i get the (SocketError)... i get errors because of
> bad connection to my wireless network... i dont know how to handle this
> error and keep the script from crashing...
>

Try this:

loop do
  begin
    res = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://bigmac.t35.com/text.txt
"))
    print res.body
  rescue SocketError => se
    puts "Got socket error: #{se}"
  end
  sleep 3
end

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