gistfile1.rb

require 'socket'

puts "Please enter host:"
hostname = STDIN.gets.chop # Read host and remove the newline

port = 80

s = TCPSocket.open(hostname, port)

s.write("HEAD / HTTP/1.0\n")
s.write("\n")

while line = s.gets   # Read lines from the socket
  puts line.chop      # And print with platform line terminator
end

s.close

#4. Modify the program TCPClient.java in the book (or write a new program in C or Java) and use it to
#connect to a web server and download a web page using HTTP/1.0. (You don’t have to interpret or
#understand the HTML code you get from it.) If needed, read the specification (RFC) to make sure that
#you get all CR (\r) and LF (\n) in the correct place. The program should be able to take a page request
#from the user (e.g. your favorite home page).
#Output from the program should be either a correct error message (web server not found, page not
#found, access forbidden, etc.) or the number of characters of data it received from the server.