Using Net::HTTP can lead to headaches when it comes to rescuing all the different kinds of exceptions it might raise.

This is a hotfix to give those common exceptions that pop up from Net:HTTP usage a shared parent exception class.

require 'net_http_exception_fix'

begin
  response = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)
rescue Net::HTTPBroken => e
  ...
end

Mad props to Tammer Saleh [1] and all the find folks on Stack Overflow [2] who confirmed my WTFness when it comes to handling Net::HTTP exceptions right.

1

tammersaleh.com/posts/rescuing-net-http-exceptions

2

stackoverflow.com/questions/5370697/whats-the-best-way-to-handle-exceptions-from-nethttp

Run the tests with

$ rake test

Currently this library is available with git from:

git://github.com/edward/net_http_exception_fix.git

You can check out the latest source from git:

> git pull git:https://github.com/edward/net_http_exception_fix.git

Installation from RubyGems

> gem install net_http_exception_fix

Edward Ocampo-Gooding <[email protected]>

Copyright © 2011 Edward Ocampo-Gooding

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