Comments on: OpenURI, Exceptions and HTTP Status Codes http://www.somethingsimilar.com/wordpress/2007/08/07/openuri-exceptions-and-http-status-codes/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:44:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jesse Newland http://www.somethingsimilar.com/wordpress/2007/08/07/openuri-exceptions-and-http-status-codes/#comment-992 Jesse Newland Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:27:26 +0000 http://www.somethingsimilar.com/wordpress/2007/08/07/openuri-exceptions-and-http-status-codes/#comment-992 <p>Actually, this isn't exactly correct - open-uri and rest-open-uri swallow 301, 302, 303, and 307 status codes, follow the redirection w/o exception, and tell you they received a 200.</p> <p>This is causing some breakage in rfeedparser, as I've detailed here:</p> <p>http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=13073&group_id=3309&atid=12738</p> Actually, this isn’t exactly correct - open-uri and rest-open-uri swallow 301, 302, 303, and 307 status codes, follow the redirection w/o exception, and tell you they received a 200.

This is causing some breakage in rfeedparser, as I’ve detailed here:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=13073&group_id=3309&atid=12738

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