open-uri question

[akanksha]

I am using open-uri for the first time. I need to visit a bunch of urls
and gather some data. Here is a samll code snippet

require 'open-uri' # allows the use of a file like API for URLs
open( "http://no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com/") { |file|
lines = file.read
puts lines
}

and here is the error I get
ruby test.rb
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:290:in `open_http': 500 Internal
Server Error (OpenURI::HTTPError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:629:in `buffer_open'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:167:in `open_loop'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:165:in `open_loop'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:135:in `open_uri'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:531:in `open'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:86:in `open'
from test.rb:2

However
require 'open-uri' # allows the use of a file like API for URLs
open( "http://www.google.com/") { |file|
lines = file.read
puts lines
}

works just fine. What am I doing wrong??

 

[Alex Young]

I am using open-uri for the first time. I need to visit a bunch of urls
and gather some data. Here is a samll code snippet

require 'open-uri' # allows the use of a file like API for URLs
open( "http://no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com/") { |file|
lines = file.read
puts lines
}

and here is the error I get
ruby test.rb
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:290:in `open_http': 500 Internal
Server Error (OpenURI::HTTPError)

works just fine. What am I doing wrong??

Nothing, from the looks of your code. The server's returning an error
message, which could (I guess) be something to do with cookies.
Mechanize has no problems with that site, anyway. I'd suggest using that.