Allows access to downloading webpages.

a 1.8 example:

require 'net/http'mainp = Net::HTTP.new('www.hello.com', 80)response, content = mainp.get('index.html', nil)puts content

Here is the rdoc which contains many examples.

See alsoOpenURI.

how to do it with https (ssl) snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/788

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