From: michael libby <x@...>
Date: 2002-10-29T23:11:34+09:00
Subject: net/http segfault

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Wanted to have some airplane reading for the trip to RubyConf and whipped 
up the following script to download comic strips from an online comic 
source:

#!/usr/bin/ruby -w
require 'net/http'

domain = "www.comicprovider.com"
path = "/comic-strip/2001/"

'01'.upto('12') do |month|
  start = '01'
  finish = '31'
  
  puts "Fetching #{path} from #{domain} starting at #{start} and going to \
       #{finish} for month #{month}" 

  h = Net::HTTP.new(domain, 80)  

  start.upto(finish) do |g| 
    begin
      s = "#{path}#{month}#{g}.gif"
      puts "Fetching #{s}..."
      resp, data = h.get(s)
      puts "Writing #{g}..."
      File.open("stripname_2001#{month}#{g}.gif", "w+"){|b| b.puts data}
    rescue
      puts "error fetching or writing #{s}, continuing"
    end
  end
end

But I get segfaults all the time, which means I have to adjust the 
boundaries and start over. It's not predictable. 

 /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:785: [BUG] Segmentation fault
 ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i686-linux-gnu]
 Aborted

What the heck?

 -michael

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