From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-11-17T10:23:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Old style assignment

>>>>> "M" == Michael Thomas <mthomas1234@hotmail.com> writes:

 You have the documentation in  the source of http.rb

M> resp, data = h.get('/index.html', nil )
M> net/http: warning: old style assignment found at ./test.rb:6

    # Gets data from +path+ on the connected-to host.
    # +header+ must be a Hash like { 'Accept' => '*/*', ... }.
    #
    # In version 1.1 (ruby 1.6), this method returns a pair of objects,
    # a Net::HTTPResponse object and the entity body string.
    # In version 1.2 (ruby 1.8), this method returns a Net::HTTPResponse
    # object.
    #
    # If called with a block, yields each fragment of the
    # entity body in turn as a string as it is read from
    # the socket.  Note that in this case, the returned response
    # object will *not* contain a (meaningful) body.
    #
    # +dest+ argument is obsolete.
    # It still works but you must not use it.
    #
    # In version 1.1, this method might raise an exception for 
    # 3xx (redirect). In this case you can get a HTTPResponse object
    # by "anException.response".
    #
    # In version 1.2, this method never raises exception.
    #
    #     # version 1.1 (bundled with Ruby 1.6)
    #     response, body = http.get('/index.html')
    #
    #     # version 1.2 (bundled with Ruby 1.8 or later)
    #     response = http.get('/index.html')
    #     
    #     # using block
    #     File.open('result.txt', 'w') {|f|
    #       http.get('/~foo/') do |str|
    #         f.write str
    #       end
    #     }
    #

 1.1 is the old style

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Guy Decoux