Retrieving the Date Header with https-access2

[hoyhoy]

I've been trying to figure out how to retrieve a http head request
date using http-access2.

I thought this could work:

h = HTTPAccess2::Client.new()
res = h.head('http://involution.com')
print response.header['date'],"\n"

However, that seems to be returning Time.now. Any suggestions?

FYI, you can view a http request by doing the following:

telnet involution.com 80
Trying 69.58.21.60...
Connected to involution.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
-----> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:01:47 GMT <------- Date Header ----X
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
Cache-Control: no-cache
Set-Cookie: _session_id=670e36e364a03785011afbfafbc15fde; path=/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

I'm looking at trying to find a way to see what time the server thinks
it is to do some time zone correction foo.

Regards,

Tony
http://involution.com

 

[Dimitri Aivaliotis]

I've been trying to figure out how to retrieve a http head request
date using http-access2.

I thought this could work:

h =3D HTTPAccess2::Client.new()
res =3D h.head('http://involution.com')
print response.header['date'],"\n"

^^^^^^^^^

maybe that typo has something to do with your getting Time.now.

It's retrieved correctly here:

h =3D HTTPAccess2::Client.new()
res =3D h.head('http://involution.com')
puts res.header['date']

=3D> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:20:17 GMT

Time.now

=3D> Wed Mar 29 11:20:50 CEST 2006

require 'pp'
pp res

<snip>
@header_item=3D
[["Date", "Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:20:17 GMT"],
["Server", "Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)"],
["X-Powered-By", "PHP/4.3.9"],
["X-Pingback", "http://involution.com/xmlrpc.php"],
["Connection", "close"],
["Content-Type", "text/html; charset=3DUTF-8"]],
</snip>

- Dimitri