From: alex@... (Alex Fenton)
Date: 2003-06-19T19:00:49+09:00
Subject: Re: TCP/IP protocol and Net::HTTP

Nigel Gilbert <n.gilbert@soc.surrey.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<16DC5185-A1BA-11D7-9D0F-000393B7BBA4@soc.surrey.ac.uk>...
> For almost all web sites, such as www.ruby-lang.org, the code
> 
> Net::HTTP.get_print 'www.ruby-lang.org', '/'
> 
> works without a problem, returning the home page.
> 
> However, 'ad.doubleclick.net' is an exception.  The code;
> 
> Net::HTTP.get_print 'ad.doubleclick.net', '/'


Works for me (Thu 19/6 11:00) - a bit slow, but gets there with the default timeout

[alexf@localhost]$ ruby -v
ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-19) [i386-linux]

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