From: Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Date: 2002-09-26T11:28:37+09:00
Subject: Re: http/net

Hi,

  In mail "Re: http/net"
    Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote:

> ...but, sorry to say, I am still a big dummy with regards to net/http.
> Is there a way to directly use a uri to get the page data?

Net::HTTP.get accepts URI objects.
Other Net::HTTP methods do NOT accept URI objects.
Because:

  Net::HTTP.start('www.example.com') {|http|
      print http.get(URI.parse('http://www.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby-1.6.6.tar.gz'))
  }

This operation does not make sense.

-- Minero Aoki