Follow up from OP:
On a suggestion by Rick Tessner, I switched from using Net:HTTP to a
simple system call to curl. Same result :( It works fine from the
console but curl returns false when called from Mongrel. It definitely
looks like Mongrel is messing things up for me. It seems a little over
the top to switch from Mongrel to something else (like Passenger?)
just because of this.
Note, using an IP address works fine in tests - but the URL I need to
use needs the domain so that it can resolve its virtual hosts.
-
Bill
On Oct 20, 4:36 pm, Bill Horsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been banging my head against this problem for a while now. I'm
> using Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse(url)) to fetch a response from another
> server. It looks like this:
>
> module Hxml
> def self.fetch
> // Not really using bbc.co.uk but it behaves the same when I do
> return Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse('http://news.bbc.co.uk'))
> end
> end
>
> I call that from my controller on my staging box (using an HTTP
> request, like normal) and it says "getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in
> name resolution". Fair enough, but it does work from the console on
> the staging box. In other words, from Mongrel I get an error, but from
> the console it works fine. The error's backtrace points directly to
> the line above, "Net::HTTP.get".
>
> Now, the staging server is behind a firewall that I don't know much
> about - and I can't rule out that being the cause of the problem.
> Only, how would it work from the console if that was the case? As a
> double check, curl also works from a terminal too.
>
> It all works fine on my development box (Mongrel or console) - which
> just adds to the puzzle.
>
> I would have thought that the console environment was identical to the
> mongrel environment. When I start up the console it reports that is
> "Loading stage environment". And I can see mongrel running using ps
> and it includes "-e stage" so I'm pretty sure the environments are the
> same.
>
> Running Ruby 1.8.6 on Rails 2.1.0, Mac OS X Server 10.5.4
>
> Thanks.
>
> -
> Bill
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