# Open-uri question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-uri-question/99871>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 26, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-uri-question/99871 "2006-07-26T01:52:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![akanksha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b4bc9f/32.png) [@akanksha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/akanksha)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-uri-question/99871/1 "2006-07-26T01:52:15Z")

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I am using open-uri for the first time. I need to visit a bunch of urls  
and gather some data. Here is a samll code snippet

require ‘open-uri’ # allows the use of a file like API for URLs  
open( “[http://no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com/](http://no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com/)”) { |file|  
lines = file.read  
puts lines  
}

and here is the error I get  
ruby test.rb  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:290:in `open_http': 500 Internal Server Error (OpenURI::HTTPError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:629:in `buffer\_open’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:167:in `open_loop' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:165:in `open\_loop’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:135:in `open_uri' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:531:in `open’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:86:in `open’  
from test.rb:2

However  
require ‘open-uri’ # allows the use of a file like API for URLs  
open( “[http://www.google.com/](http://www.google.com/)”) { |file|  
lines = file.read  
puts lines  
}

works just fine. What am I doing wrong??

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**Author:** ![akanksha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b4bc9f/32.png) [@akanksha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/akanksha)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-uri-question/99871/2 "2006-07-26T02:14:36Z")

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akanksha wrote:

> ruby test.rb  
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:290:in `open\_http’: 500 Internal  
> Server Error (OpenURI::HTTPError)  
>   
> works just fine. What am I doing wrong??

Nothing, from the looks of your code. The server’s returning an error  
message, which could (I guess) be something to do with cookies.  
Mechanize has no problems with that site, anyway. I’d suggest using  
that.

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**Author:** ![akanksha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b4bc9f/32.png) [@akanksha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/akanksha)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-uri-question/99871/3 "2006-07-26T02:29:46Z")

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I get the same error although I noticed there was a semi-colon causing a  
syntax error:

SyntaxError: compile error  
(irb):2: syntax error  
open( “[http://no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com](http://no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com)”😉 { |file|  
^  
(irb):5: syntax error  
from (irb):5  
irb(main):006:0\>

> … which could (I guess) be something to do with cookies

I don’t know the reason this is occuring, but here is what the server is  
sending back from a wget:

wget --verbose --no-proxy --no-cookies --server-response  
[http://no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com](http://no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com)

–20:22:47-- [http://no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com/](http://no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com/)  
=\> `index.html.5’  
Resolving [no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com](http://no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com)… 207.46.217.223,  
207.46.217.219  
Connecting to no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com|207.46.217.223|:80…  
connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response…  
HTTP/1.1 200 OK  
Connection: keep-alive  
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:22:48 GMT  
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0  
P3P:CP=“BUS CUR CONo FIN IVDo ONL OUR PHY SAMo TELo”  
X-Powered-By: [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET)  
MSNSERVER: H: TK2SPCWEBA96 V: 1 D: 1/1/2000  
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727  
Set-Cookie: MC1=V=3&GUID=e79f712dd7ae49d4ab26790953d8b9e0;  
[domain=.msn.com](http://domain=.msn.com); expires=Mon, 04-Oct-2021 19:00:00 GMT; path=/  
Set-Cookie: S\_VDT=Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:32:00 GMT; expires=Sat,  
29-Jul-2006 00:22:48 GMT; path=/  
Set-Cookie:  
sc\_stgcls\_107=NzAwRGRYZlU3Q3Q5WDBYYnB2bktaSjkwY3hnUnllVU56SQ==;  
[domain=no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com](http://domain=no-way-outspaik375.spaces.msn.com); expires=Fri, 25-Aug-2006  
00:22:48 GMT; path=/  
Set-Cookie: S\_USI=0; expires=Sat, 29-Jul-2006 00:22:48 GMT; path=/  
Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:59:40 GMT  
Expires: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:22:48 GMT  
Cache-Control: private  
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