Example of how to fetch a URL with Net:HTTP and Ruby

```ruby require 'net/http' require 'net/https' url = URI.parse('http://www.google.com/yo?query=yahoo') http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port) http.open_timeout = http.read_timeout = 10 # Set open and read timeout to 10 seconds http.use_ssl = (url.scheme == "https") headers = { 'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12', 'If-Modified-Since' => '', 'If-None-Match' => '' } # Note to self, use request_uri not path: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/URI/HTTP.html#M004934 response, body = http.get(url.request_uri, headers) puts response.code puts response.message response.each {|key, val| puts key + ' = ' + val} ```