From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2010-04-21T00:15:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::Ping::HTTP inconsistencies



On Apr 19, 3:57 pm, Daniel Waite <rabbitb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> system(%{echo "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\nHOST:www.rabbitcreative.com\n\n" | nchttp://www.rabbitcreative.com80})
>
> Really? Ruby's Net/* libraries suck, apparently.

net-ping isn't part of the Ruby standard library. There's a ping
library, but net-ping is a different beast.

Also, your problem did inspire me to make one change, which is to
alter the Net::Ping::HTTP class so that a URI without a path assumes
'/' for the path.

Regards,

Dan