Hope someone can follow this... I have an action in a controller which attempts to use Net::HTTP.get_response() to get pages over http so it can write them to disk. If I do this: response Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://localhost:3000/index.html")) It fails the error shown at the bottom of this post But if I replace localhost with the name of our staging server (which is on a different machine) it succeeds: response Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://staging:3000/index.html")) Both http://localhost:3000/index.html and http://stageing:3000/index.html pull up identical pages when invoked in a browser. Should I be able to use Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://localhost:3000/index.html")) in an action which itself is being invoked on localhost? Incidentally if I try to run response Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://staging:3000/index.html")) on the staging server itself, I run into the same error. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Here''s The Error [2007-01-31 14:11:32] ERROR Errno::EINVAL: Invalid argument c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpresponse.rb:324:in `write'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpresponse.rb:324:in `_write_data'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpresponse.rb:296:in `send_body_string'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpresponse.rb:187:in `send_body'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpresponse.rb:104:in `send_response'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:79:in `run'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in `start_thread'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start_thread'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:95:in `start'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `start'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:23:in `start'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:82:in `start'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.4/lib/webrick_server.rb:67:in `dispatch'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.4/lib/commands/servers/webrick.rb:59 c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in `require'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.4/lib/commands/server.rb:30 c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in `require'' script/server:3 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---