Hi,
I’m a new bee to Ruby and I’m trying to parse the html content from a
website using net/http. All urls work fine except for
“Control API access with domain-wide delegation - Google Workspace Admin Help”.
When I try to access this url I get an error like this :
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:135:in sysread': Connection reset by peer (Errno::ECONNRESET) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:135:in rbuf_fill’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:62:in timeout' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:93:in timeout’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:134:in rbuf_fill' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:116:in readuntil’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:126:in readline' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2020:in read_status_line’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2009:in read_new' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1050:in request’
from ./rssModule.rb:40:in extractor' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:543:in start’
from ./rssModule.rb:38:in extractor' from ./rssModule.rb:19:in each’
from ./rssModule.rb:19:in `extractor’
from rss.rb:38
I don’t know exactly about the problem ie. whether it is OS dependent or
browser dependent etc… My code snippet is shown below :
uri =
URI.parse(“Control API access with domain-wide delegation - Google Workspace Admin Help”)
header = { “User-Agent”=>“Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT
5.0)” }
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl()
http.start do |https|
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.path,
header)
response = https.request(request,
header)
response.value
end
Please help me. I’m in big trouble if I can’t solve it.
Regards
Arun
First, the URL is badly encoded, in the end of the string:
http%3A%2%2Fwww…"
should be
http%3A%2F%2Fwww…"
Second, to access a protected resource, it’s not enought just to start
a URL with https 
You need to know the login & password, once you know them you can
should set them before performing a request:
request.basic_auth ‘account’, ‘password’
Dmitry
Dmitry S. wrote:
First, the URL is badly encoded, in the end of the string:
http%3A%2%2Fwww…"
should be
http%3A%2F%2Fwww…"
Second, to access a protected resource, it’s not enought just to start
a URL with https
You need to know the login & password, once you know them you can
should set them before performing a request:
request.basic_auth ‘account’, ‘password’
Dmitry
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I applied basic authentication and changed the
url but still it is showing the same error. Besides can you please tell
me is this error generated only for those sites which require basic
authentication or this error can be generated for other sites which
doesnot require any type of authentication at all. I’ll be pleased to
hear from you.
Thanking you
Regards
Arun
The error will be generated anytime when the server doesn’t want to
talk to you, eg. because of auth failure or service outage.
And about basic auth, actually it’s only one of the many ways to
authenticate on the web, and I’m sure that Google Account protected
services support it. Probably the only way to fullfil such request is
to emulate a browser request and store all cookies & headers the
google will set. But it won’t be easy, if possible at all. So you’ll
better find an API way to access the service, either don’t scrap such
URLs. And also I’m quite sure that it violates Google Terms.
Dmitry
Dmitry S. wrote:
The error will be generated anytime when the server doesn’t want to
talk to you, eg. because of auth failure or service outage.
And about basic auth, actually it’s only one of the many ways to
authenticate on the web, and I’m sure that Google Account protected
services support it. Probably the only way to fullfil such request is
to emulate a browser request and store all cookies & headers the
google will set. But it won’t be easy, if possible at all. So you’ll
better find an API way to access the service, either don’t scrap such
URLs. And also I’m quite sure that it violates Google Terms.
Dmitry
Hi Dmitry,
Thanks very much for the suggestion. Anyway have a few doubts:
- Is this error has any connection with Connection TimeOut?
- Is there any possible way to resolve the error other than you
mentioned ie. anything I can do to resolve the proble.
Thanks again for the quick reply
Regards
Arun K.