simple comet client

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

class SimpleCometClient
  def initialize()
    @uri = URI.parse('http://www.localhash.com/publishers/myspace/stream')
    @http = Net::HTTP.new(@uri.host, @uri.port)
  end

  def read_data(post_body = nil)
    if post_body
      request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(@uri.path)
    else
      request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(@uri.path)
    end
    @http.request(request, post_body) do |response|
      case response
        when Net::HTTPClientError, Net::HTTPServerError:
      end
      response.read_body do |data|
        yield data
      end
    end
  end
end

@client = SimpleCometClient.new
begin
  @client.read_data("hub.lat=34.052&hub.lon=-118.243&hub.precision=3") do |data|
    puts data
  end
rescue Exception => e
  puts e
end