From: Mark Wilson Date: 2003-06-20T00:19:30+09:00 Subject: Re: TCP/IP protocol and Net::HTTP On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 08:08 AM, Nigel Gilbert wrote: > [snip] > > If there is someone out there using MacOSX, could you try it and see > whether this theory is correct? What you need to do is: > [snip] My results are below. I am using Mac OS X 10.2.6 and Ruby 1.8p2. I also tried 'ad.doubleclick.net' in Safari and got the same page. If you haven't already, I recommend trying your browser also to test whether your problem may be perhaps firewall related. Regards, Mark irb(main):001:0> require 'net/http' => true irb(main):002:0> Net::HTTP.get_print 'ad.doubleclick.net', '/' This is a DoubleClick advertising server.

Click here for the DoubleClick home page.

Click here for privacy information. => nil irb(main):003:0>