From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2003-03-28T20:43:38+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.8 docs in progress?

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Minero Aoki wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   In mail "1.8 docs in progress?"
>     Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >         resp, data= h.get(website.path)
>
> > 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].
>
> Try
>
>   require 'net/http'
>   Net::HTTP.version_1_1
>

Thank you (and for the info on ruby-doc also).
>
> > 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.
>
> Please refer embedded RD document now.

Thanks.  I'll note here that you explained on Ruby-doc why the args
are like this: because of the semantics changing when only some are
supplied.  They can be called with (uri) or (host, path, [port]).

>
> Regards,
> Minero Aoki
>
>
        Thank you.
        Hugh