I’m not sure if this is the best place to ask this, but I hope someone
will be able to help, or at least point me somewhere else.
I’ve written a screen-scrapper (in Perl) for digg.com. It uses
HTTP::Lite to retrieve the page and regexp’s to parse information. It
works, but I’d like to create a Ruby version to help me learn Ruby.
Here is the code I’m trying to use:
require ‘net/http’
require ‘uri’
Net::HTTP.start( ‘www.digg.com’, 80 ) do |http|
print( http.get( ‘/’ ).body )
end
If I use this to get another site (eg slashdot.org) it returns all the
HTML, as expected. With digg.com, I get this:
Generated Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:22:05 GMT by Prolexic.com (SI2LON1/2.0)
That looks like (I’m guessing) some kind of return message from a
load-balancer or other proxy. I’ve tried this from 3 different systems
(which use different ISPs) so I don’t think it’s my system.
Does anyone have any ideas about this? Why does the Perl code work,
but not the Ruby? Is there a fix?
Using Ruby 1.8.3 under Linux, also tried it with Ruby 1.8.2 on Mac OS X.
TIA
On 11/28/05, James M. [email protected] wrote:
That looks like (I’m guessing) some kind of return message from a
load-balancer or other proxy. I’ve tried this from 3 different systems
(which use different ISPs) so I don’t think it’s my system.
Using open-uri, this is what I get:
irb(main):001:0> require ‘open-uri’
=> true
irb(main):002:0> open(‘http://www.digg.com’).read
OpenURI::HTTPError: 403 Forbidden
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:574:in proxy_open' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:525:in direct_open’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:169:in open_loop' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in catch’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in open_loop' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:134:in open_uri’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:424:in open' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:85:in open’
from (irb):2
Gregory B. wrote:
On 11/28/05, James M. [email protected] wrote:
That looks like (I’m guessing) some kind of return message from a
load-balancer or other proxy. I’ve tried this from 3 different systems
(which use different ISPs) so I don’t think it’s my system.
Using open-uri, this is what I get:
When I launch the Web 2.0 Validator (web2.0validator.com), I pointed it
at digg.com (among other sites) and it rejected the request.
I changed the user agent sent in the request headers, and the requests
were fine after that.
James B.
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I changed the user agent sent in the request headers, and the requests
were fine after that.
Precisely that – thanks! Seems like changing the UA to anything (I
chose the well-known “foobar” browser for my first test 
will do the
trick:
print( http.get( ‘/’, “User-Agent” => “foobar” ).body )
Thanks again.
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James M