# Simple http.get() script fails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simple-http-get-script-fails/179696>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 2, 2009, 8:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simple-http-get-script-fails/179696 "2009-12-02T08:29:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![juan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a698b9/32.png) [@juan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/juan)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 8:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simple-http-get-script-fails/179696/1 "2009-12-02T08:29:34Z")

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Hi,

Using a simple test script to get Google’s start page HTML gives me the  
following error:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in  
`initialize': getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known (SocketError) from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `open’

The script is:

USERAGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US;  
rv:1.9.0.10) ’ +  
‘Gecko/2009042315 Firefox/3.0.10’

http = Net::HTTP.new( ‘[http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com)’ )

res = http.get( ‘/’, {  
‘User-Agent’ =\> USERAGENT,  
‘Accept’ =\> ‘_/_’,  
‘Accept-Language’ =\> ‘en-us,en,q=0.5’,  
‘accept-encoding’ =\> ‘gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3’,  
‘Connection’ =\> ‘keep-alive’,  
‘Keep-Alive’ =\> ‘115’  
} )

puts res.body

Googling for it shows some results stating the there was an error with  
OS X 10.5.3 (I’m using 10.6.2) but I find hard to believe that the error  
is still there in such a core library, so the problem must be in my  
code.

Can anyone provide some light on this? Thanks !

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**Author:** ![juan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a698b9/32.png) [@juan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/juan)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simple-http-get-script-fails/179696/2 "2009-12-02T16:03:15Z")

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You could try:

require ‘open-uri’  
http = open(‘http:/www.google.com’)

http then contains your google page data.

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**Author:** ![juan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a698b9/32.png) [@juan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/juan)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simple-http-get-script-fails/179696/3 "2009-12-03T00:55:48Z")

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Didn’t you forget to put in your PROXY settings?? NodeName not found  
normally means you didn’t even get out of your own network block…