Fetch a URL in Ruby
require 'uri' require 'net/http' url = "http://www.whatever.com/whatever.txt" r = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url).host, URI.parse(url).path)
r.code = 200 | 404 | 500, etc
r.body = *text of page*
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r.code = 200 | 404 | 500, etc
r.body = *text of page*
View returned HTTP header on a request
curl -I http://www.google.com/
