module OpenURI - RDoc Documentation

# module OpenURI

`OpenURI` is an easy-to-use wrapper for `Net::HTTP`, Net::HTTPS and Net::FTP.

## Example¶ ↑

It is possible to open an http, https or ftp URL as though it were a file:

    URI.open("http://www.ruby-lang.org/") {|f|
      f.each_line {|line| p line}
    }

The opened file has several getter methods for its meta-information, as follows, since it is extended by `OpenURI::Meta`.

    URI.open("http://www.ruby-lang.org/en") {|f|
      f.each_line {|line| p line}
      p f.base_uri         # <URI::HTTP:0x40e6ef2 URL:http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/>
      p f.content_type     # "text/html"
      p f.charset          # "iso-8859-1"
      p f.content_encoding # []
      p f.last_modified    # Thu Dec 05 02:45:02 UTC 2002
    }

Additional header fields can be specified by an optional hash argument.

    URI.open("http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/",
      "User-Agent" => "Ruby/#{RUBY_VERSION}",
      "From" => "foo@bar.invalid",
      "Referer" => "http://www.ruby-lang.org/") {|f|
      # ...
    }

The environment variables such as http_proxy, https_proxy and ftp_proxy are in effect by default. Here we disable proxy:

    URI.open("http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/", :proxy => nil) {|f|
      # ...
    }

See `OpenURI::OpenRead.open` and `URI.open` for more on available options.

`URI` objects can be opened in a similar way.

    uri = URI.parse("http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/")
    uri.open {|f|
      # ...
    }

`URI` objects can be read directly. The returned string is also extended by `OpenURI::Meta`.

    str = uri.read
    p str.base_uri

Author

  Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org>

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