voidcmd(cmd) Instance Public methods Sends a command and expect a response beginning with '2'.

Proxy(p_addr = :ENV, p_port = nil, p_user = nil, p_pass = nil) Class Public methods Creates an HTTP proxy class which behaves like Net::HTTP, but performs all access via the specified proxy. This class is obsolete. You may pass these same parameters directly to ::new. See ::new for details of the arguments.

default_port() Class Public methods The default port to use for HTTP requests; defaults to 80.

get(uri_or_host, path = nil, port = nil) Class Public methods Sends a GET request to the target and returns the HTTP response as a string. The target can either be specified as (uri), or as (host, path, port = 80); so: print Net::HTTP.get(URI('http://www.example.com/index.html')) or: print Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/index.html')

get_print(uri_or_host, path = nil, port = nil) Class Public methods Gets the body text from the target and outputs it to $stdout. The target can either be specified as (uri), or as (host, path, port = 80); so: Net::HTTP.get_print URI('http://www.example.com/index.html') or: Net::HTTP.get_print 'www.example.com', '/index.html'

get_response(uri_or_host, path = nil, port = nil, &block) Class Public methods Sends a GET request to the target and returns the HTTP response as a Net::HTTPResponse object. The target can either be specified as (uri), or as (host, path, port = 80); so: res = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI('http://www.example.com/index.html')) print res.body or: res = Net::HTTP.get_response('www.example.com', '/index.html') print res.body

http_default_port() Class Public methods The default port to use for HTTP requests; defaults to 80.

https_default_port() Class Public methods The default port to use for HTTPS requests; defaults to 443.

is_version_1_2?() Class Public methods Alias for: version_1_2?

new(address, port = nil, p_addr = :ENV, p_port = nil, p_user = nil, p_pass = nil) Class Public methods Creates a new Net::HTTP object without opening a TCP connection or HTTP session. The address should be a DNS hostname or IP address, the port is the port the server operates on. If no port is given the default port for HTTP or HTTPS is used. If none of the p_ arguments are given, the proxy host and port are taken from the http_proxy environment variable (or its uppercase equivale