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