You behind a proxy? There is another method in http which takes proxy host / port as an argument. On 8/17/05, Rasmus Debitsch <Debitsch / t-online.de> wrote: > Hello, > > I want to retrieve an image from the world wind server using the Ruby http > package. But I can't get it work. In tcl/tk it works like this: > > package require http > set url "http://data.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/t?T=105&L=0&X=81&Y=48" > set token [::http:geturl $url] > upvar #0 $token state > > and the jpeg image is in the state(body) variable. Using Ruby I expected > something like this: > > require 'net/http' > server = 'http://data.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov' > request = '/t?T=105&L=0&X=81&Y=48' > http = Net::HTTP.new(server) > http.start > resp,data = http.get(request, nil) > http.finish > > But http.start returns "SocketError: getaddrinfo: no address associated with > hostname." always. Is there a command like geturl in the net/http package? > -- > Rasmus > > > > -- Brock Weaver http://www.circaware.com