comp.lang.ruby

Jan-Erik R.

1/17/2009 12:01:00 PM

Vikas Gholap schrieb:
> Hello to all,
> I am using 'open-uri' & 'pp' ruby library, to open url and gather some
> data from given web page. But it throws following error
>
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:278:in `open_http': 500 Internal Server
> Error (
> OpenURI::HTTPError)
> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:617:in `buffer_open'
> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in `open_loop'
> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `catch'
> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `open_loop'
> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:132:in `open_uri'
> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:519:in `open'
> from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:30:in `open'
> from openmyurl.rb:4
>
>
> source code openurl.rb is like-----
>
>
> require 'open-uri'
> require 'pp'
>
> open('http://www.aflatune...) do |f|
> # hash with meta information
> pp f.meta
>
> #
> pp "Content-Type: " + f.content_type
> pp "last modified" + f.last_modified.to_s
>
> no = 1
> # print the first fifty lines
> f.each do |line|
> print "#{no}: #{line}"
> no += 1
> break if no > 50
> end
> end
>
> can any one give me solution to how to solve this problem?
looks like the aflatune-Webserver throws a 500 error if no User-Agent is
set.

this works for me:
open('http://www.aflatune..., 'User-Agent'=>'ruby')