Re: reading from a URL

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:22:07AM +0900, GOTO Kentaro wrote:
> At Tue, 8 Oct 2002 02:33:52 +0900,
> Volkmann, Mark <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > I need to read the content of an HTTP URL.  I can break the URL up into
> > server, port and path and use Net::HTTP to read it, but it seems like there
> > should be an easier way.  I'd really like to pass the URL string to a method
> > of some class that would return an object from a class that inherits from
> > IO.  Does something like that exist?  If not, is there an easier way than
> > using Net::HTTP?
> 
> If you have Ruby 1.7, try
> 
>   require "net/http"
>   require "uri"
>   content = Net::HTTP.get_print(URI.parse("http://www.example.com/index.html"))
> 
> If not, 
> 
>   require "net/http"
>   require "uri"
>   uri = URI.parse("http://www.example.com/index.html")
>   content = Net::HTTP.get(uri.host, uri.request_uri, uri.port)
> 
> Read net/http.rb if you would need http auth, redirection or proxy server. 
> This library includes the documentation of itself.  
BTW, current Net::HTTP code does not support proxies with authentication
enabled which makes it rather unusable in corporate networks. I've sent a
patch to fix it to Matz and he forwarded it to Minero Anoki (net/http.rb
maintainer) but fix still isn't in CVS.

I'm attaching it here in meantime.

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/ Alexander Bokovoy
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