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.