I note in the code here you have gone to

wwwdictionary.com

rather than

www.dictionary.com

Ralph
----- Original Message -----
From: "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker / jump.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients:>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 7:37 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:27957] Re: Dictionary.com speeder upper -- Win2k problem


> Hi,
>
> I have problems running this on MS Win2k, using
> ruby 1.6.5 (2001-09-19) [i386-cygwin].
>
> I turned off the add-blocker filter, and told ZoneAlarm to let ruby talk
to
> the outside world.
>
> After "a =
> Net::HTTP.get("wwwdictionary.com","/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=#{ARGV[0]}")"
runs,
> I get back a bunch of HTML with the following seemingly relevant bits of
> text:
>
>   "The page cannot be displayed"
>   "HTTP 403.1 Forbidden: Execute Access Forbidden"
>   "Internet Information Services"
>   "You have attempted to execute a CGI, ISAPI, or other executable program
> from a directory that does not allow programs to be executed."
>
> Well, that's not exactly helpful news to me. I don't know what to make of
> this or what to do about it. Any suggestions from the experts?
>
> Thanks,
> Conrad
>
>
>