From: kris_80@... (kris)
Date: 2004-02-09T07:24:24+09:00
Subject: nuby problem with net/http

Hello

I am trying to do some basic http stuff with Ruby but I can't get the
following example from the Programming Ruby book to work.

Code from the book: 

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 {|key, val| printf "%-14s = %-40.40s\n", key, val }
p data[0..55]


I get this error:

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:83:in `initialize': getaddrinfo:
no address associated with hostname. (SocketError)
	from c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:83:in `new'
	from c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:83:in
`connect'
	from c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:82:in
`timeout'
	from c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:55:in `timeout'
	from c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:82:in
`connect'
	from c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:64:in
`initialize'
	from c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:430:in `open'
	from c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:430:in `do_start'
	from c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:419:in `start'
	from c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:821:in `request'
	from c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:618:in `get'
	from http_msg.rb:4
>Exit code: 1


Details:
Ruby: version 1.8.1 (2004-01-27)
OS: Win XP Pro
I'm behind a proxy with the only information I have about it are IP
address and port number.

Many thanks for your help!

K