Unable to connect to http

Ruby
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Hi

      I am trying to get  a webpage using this code

require ‘net/http’
Net::HTTP.start(‘www.rubyinside.com’) do |http|
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(‘/test.txt’)
puts http.request(req).body
end

I am using ruby1.8.4 on windows XP platform
but it is giving error like

c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in initialize': Bad file descriptor - connect(2) (Errno::EBADF) from c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in connect’
from c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:48:in timeout' from c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in timeout’
from c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in connect' from c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in do_start’
from c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:in start' from c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:440:in start’
from ft.rb:15

what should I do to run the program . please help me out ! It is not
fixed yet !should I update the version ?

                                                    regards
                                                    pradeepta