From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-10-10T00:53:58+09:00
Subject: Re: reading from a URL

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:22:07AM +0900, GOTO Kentaro wrote:
> > 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.  
> 
> Or try WebFetcher in RAA.  

Is there a std lib way that works both for 1.6 and 1.7?

Massimiliano