Connecting via a proxy

Ruby
1

Hello all,

Two questions:

  1. in the example below, is our corporate firewall the reason I for the
    error?
  2. if so, how can I configure ruby to use the firewall specified in
    http_proxy?

Details:

I’m trying to connect to an outside http resource but I suspect our
corporate firewall is blocking the normal route:

$ ruby -rbio -e ‘reg = Bio::Registry.new’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in initialize': No route to host - connect(2) (Errno::EHOSTUNREACH) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in open’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in connect' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:48:in timeout’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in timeout' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in connect’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in do_start' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:in start’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:440:in start' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/bio/io/registry.rb:190:in read_remote’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/bio/io/registry.rb:126:in initialize' from -e:1:in new’
from -e:1
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-06-07 patchlevel 36) [i486-linux]

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 7.10
Release: 7.10
Codename: gutsy

The environment variable http_proxy is configured:

$ env | grep -c http_proxy
1

and works for elinks:

$ ( elinks -dump google.com | wc -l )
45

In fact, if I unset http_proxy, elinks doesn’t work:

$ ( unset http_proxy ; elinks -dump google.com | wc -l )
ELinks: No route to host
0

Any pointers in the right direction greatly appreciated. Suggestions
for a more simple test also appreciated.

Regards,

  • Robert
2
  1. in the example below, is our corporate firewall the reason
    I for the error?
  2. if so, how can I configure ruby to use the firewall
    specified in http_proxy?
  1. Probably
  2. Look at the documentation for the Net::HTTP library - there’s a proxy
    example there.

Dan.

3

On Dec 20, 2007 6:22 PM, Daniel S. [email protected] wrote:

  1. in the example below, is our corporate firewall the reason
    I for the error?
  2. if so, how can I configure ruby to use the firewall
    specified in http_proxy?
  1. Probably
  2. Look at the documentation for the Net::HTTP library - there’s a proxy
    example there.

Thanks for the hints. Specifically, this is the link I looked at:

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/classes/Net/HTTP.html

To demonstrate that I can get the proxy to work, I picked google as a
simple example. Here’s what I can do with
elinks and with the http_proxy environment variable set:

$ elinks -source http://www.google.com | wc
2 173 5212

With ruby this code works:

$ ruby -r’net/http’ -e ’
proxy_addr = “www-gw32” ;
proxy_port = 3128 ;
res=Net::HTTP::Proxy(proxy_addr, proxy_port).start(“www.google.com”)
{|http|
http.get(“/”);
}
puts res.body ;
’ | wc
3 173 5213

While I understand that example (mostly), I don’t understand how to
wrap that around my existing code. Outside of the proxy, this works
just fine:

ruby -rbio -e ‘reg = Bio::Registry.new’

When I’m behind the proxy, how can I tell Bio::Registry to use the
proxy connection?

Regards,

  • Robert
4

Can you give me a pointer to Bio::Registry?

Ed

On Dec 19, 2007 2:56 PM, Robert C. [email protected] wrote:

corporate firewall is blocking the normal route:
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:in `start’
Distributor ID: Ubuntu

for a more simple test also appreciated.

Regards,

  • Robert

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On Dec 26, 2007 5:54 PM, Ed Howland [email protected] wrote:

Can you give me a pointer to Bio::Registry?

You can install bioruby like so on Ubuntu Feisty and Gutsy:

$ sudo apt-get install libbio-ruby ruby

You can test if it works with this bit of code:

$ ruby -rbio -le ‘seq = Bio::Sequence::NA.new(“atgcatgcaaaa”) ; print
seq’

Is that what you were asking?

Regards,

  • Robert
6

On Jan 2, 2008 5:48 PM, Ed Howland [email protected] wrote:

I was more interested in the API docs.

What is the main site?

The main site is here:

http://bioruby.org/

The API docs are here:

http://bioruby.org/rdoc/

Regards,

  • Robert
7

I was more interested in the API docs.

What is the main site?

Ed

On Dec 27, 2007 9:57 PM, Robert C. [email protected] wrote:

Is that what you were asking?

Regards,

  • Robert

–
Ed Howland

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to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, confidential
and/or legally privileged material. Any review, retransmission,
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upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended
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the sender and delete the material from all computers.”