Did you try a rescue block:
begin
response = Net::HTTP.start(host).request_head('/')
rescue SocketError => e
# Handle error
end
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:40 AM, jhaagmans <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm doing this:
>
> response = Net::HTTP.start(host).request_head('/')
>
> To check a domain for its response. Now some of the domains checked
> will not exist and thus produce the following error:
>
> SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
>
> But I don't want my application to fail when this happens, I just want
> the response to be nil. How can this be done?
>
> Thank you!
> >
>
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