how to use net::https in ruby

Question

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
Net::HTTP.get_print URI.parse('http://www.example.com/index.html')

when i tried to run this programm i getting error like this why??

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize': getaddrinfo: no address associated with hostname. (SocketError)
    from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `open'
    from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect'
    from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:48:in `timeout'
    from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout'
    from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect'
    from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in `do_start'
    from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:in `start'
    from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:379:in `get_response'
    from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:337:in `get_print'
    from ruby2.rb:3

Answer 1

the code looks correct and runs as expected on my machine - are you sure that dns is set up correctly on your machine? do you need a proxy to make web-calls? can you open the url in a browser?

Answer 2

I don't, I get a response. Were you online at the time?