Ruby - net/http - following redirects

Question

I\'ve got a URL and I\'m using HTTP GET to pass a query along to a page. What happens with the most recent flavor (in net/http) is that the script doesn\'t go

Answer 1

The reference that worked for me is here: http://shadow-file.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/handling-http-redirection-in-ruby.html

Compared to most examples (including the accepted answer here), it's more robust as it handles URLs which are just a domain (http://example.com - needs to add a /), handles SSL specifically, and also relative URLs.

Of course you would be better off using a library like RESTClient in most cases, but sometimes the low-level detail is necessary.