From: Mitch Williams <mitch@...>
Date: 2010-02-19T02:26:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Exception change with net/http in Ruby 187 PL 248/9

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Thanks for taking the time to respond Hemant.

I've added a redmine ticket for it here
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2758

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:20 AM, hemant <gethemant@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Mitch Williams <mitch@socialcast.com>
> wrote:
> > Ran into the following problem with net http in Ruby 187 pl248
> >
> > require net/http.rb
> > n =3D Net::HTTP.new('server-that-is-not-listening-on-port-eighty')
> > n.request_head('/')
> >
> > Prior to this change:
> > http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=3Drev&revision=3D25851=
 the
> > above code results in an:
> >
> > Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2)
> >
> >
> > After the change I receive:
> >
> > NoMethodError: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass
> >
> >
> > From line 1060 of net/http.rb.  It looks like the code was intended to
> close
> > sockets in the event of an error, but it assumes the socket actually
> exists.
> >
> > Can anyone else reproduce this issue?
> >
>
> Yes, I can reproduce.
>
> Indeed, this looks like unintentional change to me and somewhat
> unintuitive. I think, you should file a report on Redmine for this or
> raise it on ruby-core mailing list.
>
>


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