# Re: bm + net/http sanity check

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-bm-net-http-sanity-check/94949>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 18, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-bm-net-http-sanity-check/94949 "2006-05-18T01:57:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-bm-net-http-sanity-check/94949/1 "2006-05-18T01:57:18Z")

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Ah ha, that makes more sense. It didn’t occur to me that it would take  
multiple roundtrips for a single GET. Gee, now that I think about it,  
that  
doesn’t include the image gets either…

sd

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**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-bm-net-http-sanity-check/94949/2 "2006-05-18T04:11:42Z")

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> Ah ha, that makes more sense. It didn’t occur to me that it would take  
> multiple roundtrips for a single GET. Gee, now that I think about it, that  
> doesn’t include the image gets either…

get() should just download the one page. It’s not going to download the  
images contained within…

You might see if there is a head() (haven’t looked, but i imagine there  
is). That will just query the server and the server will say “yeah,  
it’s  
there”, but won’t return any data…

-philip