HTTP head request

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Hmm... how do a HTTP head request? Does 'open_uri' have something for
this?

T.

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Trans wrote:

Hmm... how do a HTTP head request? Does 'open_uri' have something for
this?

T.

You don't mean ri Net::HTTP#head, do you? :slight_smile:

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Alex

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Hi,

require "net/http"
req = Net::HTTP.new('google.com', 80)
p req.request_head('/')

George

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On 24 Sep 2007, at 21:36, Trans wrote:

Hmm... how do a HTTP head request? Does 'open_uri' have something for
this?

T.

4

It would appear open_uri doesn't have anything useful for doing head
requests, itself.

Alex Young wrote:

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Trans wrote:

Hmm... how do a HTTP head request? Does 'open_uri' have something for
this?

T.

You don't mean ri Net::HTTP#head, do you? :slight_smile:

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I believe this is an intentionally omitted feature.

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On Oct 5, 2007, at 11:00 , Roger Pack wrote:

Alex Young wrote:

Trans wrote:

Hmm... how do a HTTP head request? Does 'open_uri' have something for
this?

You don't mean ri Net::HTTP#head, do you? :slight_smile:

It would appear open_uri doesn't have anything useful for doing head
requests, itself.

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