From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-09-09T13:01:06+09:00
Subject: Re: "Moved Temporarily"?


"Ben Giddings" <bg-rubytalk@infofiend.com> wrote in message
> The other difference is that in 1.8, a 300 series error (a redirect) is
> no longer an exception.  Instead, you have to examine the return codes
> and check to see if it was a redirect, using something like:
>
> def getPage(url, header_hash, retry_count)
>
>    raise("Too many redirects") if 10 < retry_count
>
>    case response
>    when Net::HTTPSuccess
>      response
>    when Net::HTTPRedirection
>      getPage(url.merge(URI.parse(response['location'])),
>              header_hash,
>              retry_count + 1)
>    else
>      response.error!
>    end
> end
>
> Ben

Thanks for sharing this insight, Ben.
-- shanko