From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2003-03-27T22:29:30+09:00
Subject: 1.8 docs in progress?

Is there any current work in progress on the 1.8 docs?
I'm assuming that it will be very much "under construction", so "look
out for wet paint and falling masonry", but quite a few people are
using version 1.8 now, so....

Matz has pointed out one or two things that have caused me to start
using it, but I am having problems with

    h = Net::HTTP.new(website.host, website.port)
    puts "In #{line_No} h is #{h.inspect}"
    h.start
    puts "In #{line_No} h is #{h.inspect}"
    puts "In #{line_No} website.path is #{website.path.inspect}"
    begin
        resp, data= h.get(website.path)
    rescue EOFError
        resp = nil
        data = nil
    rescue
        retry_count ||= 0
        if retry_count > 10
            raise
        else
            retry_count += 1
        end
        retry
    end
    puts "data is #{data.inspect}"

resulting in data being nil in 1.8, instead of just being empty or
containing something useful which is what I had from the same page
in 1.6.[78].
Net::HTTP has chnaged somewhat, most of the arguments associated
with this are now called arg1, arg2, arg3, so that the Rdoc results
are not as meaningful as would be ideal.

If anyone has got docs I'm happy to make some effort to add rdoc
comments and so forth to the source where I'm confident that I won't
break anything.

        Hugh