From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2003-06-06T03:05:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.0 net/http bug

On Fri 06 Jun 2003 at 02:54:03 +0900, Urban Nilsson wrote:

> I tried the following example code:
> 
> require 'net/http'
> h = Net::HTTP.new('www.pragmaticprogrammer.com', 80)
> resp, data = h.get('/index.html', nil)
> puts "Code = #{resp.code}"
> puts "Message = #{resp.message}"
> resp.each {|val, key| printf "%-14s = %-40.40s\n", key, val }
> p data[0..55]
> 
> 
> This ran as expected under ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [powerpc-darwin6.0] 
> but when I ran it under ruby 1.8.0 (2003-05-26) [powerpc-darwin6.6] the 
> data variable was nil, resulting in a "net.rb:8: undefined method `[]' 
> for nil (NoMethodError)". resp was the same under both versions however.
> 
> What can I do to narrow this problem down?

After:

resp, data = h.get('/index.html', nil)

try adding this line:

data = resp.data if data.nil?

That should make your code compatible with both versions of net/http.

Ian
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