From ruby-talk  Fri Apr 23 12:41:57 2004
From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery () wanadoo ! fr>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:41:57 +0000
To: ruby-talk
Subject: Re: Need ruby equivalent of perl's LWP (libwww-perl)
Message-Id: <40890F99.6000904 () wanadoo ! fr>
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Gavri Savio Fernandez wrote:

>hi,
>	Subject says it all. Is there such a library for ruby? something close?
>  
>
You probably mean net/http, included in the ruby standard library. you 
can see:
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/lib_network.html
(and search for net/http)

emmanuel

PS: that link documents net/http in ruby 1.6, there were minor 
API-incompatible changes in 1.8, but nothing important.
PPS: for simple fetching, considering open-uri.