From: pharrington <xenogenesis@...>
Date: 2010-02-04T13:15:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Why this web page stop my "open" action [open-uri]?

On Feb 3, 10:50 pm, Tao Ji <shukebe...@163.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> Need your help to find out what stop my "open" action. I'm using
> open-uri to get the webpages fromhttp://quotes.163.com. When I try open
> other pages it works pefectly but spit out errors when I try to get the
> stock quote information.
>
> Can you give me some hints?
>
> Below is my sample code:
> ============================================
> require "open-uri"
> url_news = "http://news.163.com/10/0204/01/5UL33070000120GR.html" # a
> normal news page from 163.com
> url_600036 = "http://quotes.163.com/corp/1036/code=600036.html" # a
> stock info page from 163.com, this is problematic page
> url_blank = "http://news.163.com/10/0204/01/5UL22070000120GR.html" # a
> request to a nonexisted page
> #response = open(url_news) # I can go smoothly
> #response = open(url_blank) # also no error
> response = open(url_600036) # Yes error comes here
> puts "Character set is #{response.charset}"
> puts "Size is #{response.size}"
> ===============================================
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Is the error you're getting "SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service
not known"?

If not, copy and paste the full error.