From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-06-06T03:08:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.0 net/http bug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Urban Nilsson" <urban@oops.se>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 12:54 PM
Subject: Ruby 1.8.0 net/http bug


> 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?

It's a change in the interface, breaking old code.

This bit me a couple of weeks ago, and Austin Ziegler
pointed it out to me:

> For VERSION =~ /1.[789]/, Net::HTTP#get has been changed:
> 
>   resp = h.get("/", nil)
>   data = resp.body

More logical, perhaps, but incompatible.

Hal