Another follow up from OP:
For the record, switching to Passenger fixed the problem. I'm happy to
stick with Passenger so that's fine. It looks like it's definitely a
Mongrel problem so I'll stop by the Mongrel people to investigate
further.
Thanks for listening ;-)
-
Bill
On Oct 22, 9:10 am, Bill Horsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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