open digg.com time-out

rubyonrails-talk
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with require 'open-uri'

I get a time-out error for:

open("http://www.digg.com")

and any other digg.com pages (like for Digg Top Stories)

If I use any other url everything works fine. (and http://www.digg.com is available in the browser)

Any idea?

Thanks

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The other day I noticed the same, but using the curb bindings for libcurl.

The connection just hangs. It's good to know this isn't a curb bug, at least!

jeremy

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I found it:

just use

open(url.to_s, "User-Agent" => "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" )

probably they reject requests without an User-Agent...