Bug #6957: Net::HTTP#request_get bug

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20) [i386-mingw32]

[kl (Kalle Lindström)]

Hello,

Looking at the source for Net::HTTP#request_get it says that if you pass in a block it will not read the body unless you call #read_body on the response. But when I pass in a block it seems that it reads the when the block exits, even though I did not call #read_body on the request. Consider this example:

url = "http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165b076b-aaa9-443d-84f0-73cf11fdcdf8/WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe"
uri = URI(url)
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.hostname, uri.port)

http.request_get(uri.request_uri) do |req|
puts req["content-length"]
end # Program stops here for a long time - it must be downloading the body of the file?

compared to this:

http.request_get(uri.request_uri) do |req|
puts req["content-length"]
break # Now this method works as expected, it exits at this point without any delay
end

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

I understand what you say, but it is because of compatibility.
Please use break as you wrote.

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

Also, if you only want content-length, a HEAD request will be sufficient:

[...]
http.head uri.request_uri do |req|
puts req['content-length']
end