require "open-uri"

uri="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/"

html=URI.parse(uri).read # string representation is the response body

http_headers=URI.parse(uri).read.meta # this hash's keys are also accessible as OpenURI instance methods, e.g. html.content_type

require "open-uri"

uri="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/"

puts URI.parse(uri).read
puts '*' * 20
puts URI.parse(uri).read.meta.each { |k, v| puts k + "t" + v}

URI objects can be opened directly by open-uri

parse URI object, and fetch response from it, in one step

url, textmate, ruby

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