Rails - May 2006 - nil.strip error While trying to post xml data over https.

I am trying to subit some xml data over https to access an API.  My code
so far seems to generate a very non-helpful error in the guts of the
net/http library.  This code produces a NoMethodError for nil.strip"

    require ''net/http''
    require ''net/https''
    require ''uri''

    url = URI.parse(''www.beautifulpixel.com/index.html'')
    connection = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, 443)
    connection.use_ssl = true

    #This is the line that causes an error
    response = connection.request(Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path,
request_body))


#The error occured while evaluating nil.strip
#        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1138:in
`initialize_http_header''
#        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1136:in
`initialize_http_header''
#        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1443:in `initialize''
#        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1556:in `initialize''
#        from ./lib/ups_api.rb:74:in `initialize''
#        from (irb):13

What am I missing here?

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2006/5/3, Alex Wayne
<rubyonrails@beautifulpixel.com>:
> I am trying to subit some xml data over https to access an API.  My code
> so far seems to generate a very non-helpful error in the guts of the
> net/http library.  This code produces a NoMethodError for nil.strip"
>
>     require ''net/http''
>     require ''net/https''
>     require ''uri''
>
>     url = URI.parse(''www.beautifulpixel.com/index.html'')
>     connection = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, 443)
>     connection.use_ssl = true
>
>     #This is the line that causes an error
>     response = connection.request(Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path,
> request_body))
>
> What am I missing here?
I guess that :

irb(main):001:0> require ''uri''
=> true
irb(main):002:0>
URI.parse(''www.beautifulpixel.com/index.html'').host
=> nil
irb(main):003:0>
URI.parse(''http://www.beautifulpixel.com/index.html'').host
=> "www.beautifulpixel.com"
irb(main):004:0>

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