Thanks for a very fast answer.
And yes, Net::HTTP is the right answer.
Seems like a realy good language and community.

Hardy

James Britt wrote:

> Hardy Henneberg wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm quite new to ruby, and this is my first question to your group:
>>
>> Is there a ruby library with support for making a HttpClient - like 
>> the Jakarta commons HttpClient for java ?
>
>
> What does Jakarta commons HttpClient do, and have you looked at the 
> Net::HTTP library?
>
>
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/classes/Net/HTTP.html
>
> And welcome to Ruby!
>
>
> James
>
>