Yes, I did last night (I hadn't noticed your response). I will have to approach the situation a little bit differently, but it might just work. Thank you :)
On 13 nov, 20:23, Darian Shimy <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you try a rescue block: > > begin > response = Net::HTTP.start(host).request_head('/') > rescue SocketError => e > # Handle error > end > > -- > Darian Shimy > > http://www.darianshimy.comhttp://twitter.com/dshimy > > 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! > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
