# Open digg.com time-out

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-digg-com-time-out/88617>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 13, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-digg-com-time-out/88617 "2007-03-13T02:48:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![rosoft2001](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/94ad74/32.png) [@rosoft2001](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rosoft2001)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-digg-com-time-out/88617/1 "2007-03-13T02:48:56Z")

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with  
require ‘open-uri’

I get a time-out error for:

open(“[http://www.digg.com](http://www.digg.com)”)

and any other [digg.com](http://digg.com) pages (like for [Digg Top Stories](http://digg.com/rss/index.xml))

If I use any other url everything works fine. (and [http://www.digg.com](http://www.digg.com)  
is available in the browser)

Any idea?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![rosoft2001](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/94ad74/32.png) [@rosoft2001](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rosoft2001)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 3:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-digg-com-time-out/88617/2 "2007-03-13T03:20:58Z")

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On 3/12/07, rosoft2001 [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> If I use any other url everything works fine. (and [http://www.digg.com](http://www.digg.com)  
> is available in the browser)

The other day I noticed the same, but using the curb bindings for  
libcurl.

The connection just hangs. It’s good to know this isn’t a curb bug, at  
least!

jeremy

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**Author:** ![rosoft2001](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/94ad74/32.png) [@rosoft2001](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rosoft2001)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-digg-com-time-out/88617/3 "2007-03-14T15:25:05Z")

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I found it:

just use

open(url.to\_s, “User-Agent” =\> “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0;  
Windows NT 6.0)” )

probably they reject requests without an User-Agent…