From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-04-20T14:35:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::Ping::HTTP inconsistencies

On 04/19/2010 11:57 PM, Daniel Waite wrote:
> system(%{echo "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\nHOST: www.rabbitcreative.com\n\n" | nc 
> http://www.rabbitcreative.com 80})
> 
> Really? Ruby's Net/* libraries suck, apparently.

On what basis do you come to this conclusion?  Maybe your webserver is 
not accepting all connection attempts to control the load.  Maybe there 
are network issues.  So far I have not seen evidence that there is 
something wrong with Ruby's net library.  (Btw, which version are you 
using?)

Cheers

	robert

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