Re-namespacing a bit to clear out some fairly old stuff from the top level

oldstuff/RubyFun/cookbook/014/01.rb

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+require 'open-uri'
+puts 'using "open-uri"'
+puts open('http://oreilly.com/').read(200)
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------------
+require 'net/http'
+puts 'using "net/http"'
+response = Net::HTTP.get_response('oreilly.com', '/about/')
+puts 'response.code=' + response.code.to_s
+puts 'response.body.size=' + response.body.size.to_s
+puts 'response[\'Content-type\']=' + response['Content-type']
+puts 'response[0, 200]' + response.body[0, 200]
+
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------------
+require 'uri'
+puts 'using "net/http" with a URI'
+puts 'request object:' + \
+    Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse("http://oreilly.com")).to_s
+response = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://oreilly.com/about/"))
+
+# .........
+puts "Success!" if response.is_a? Net::HTTPOK
+
+puts case response.code[0]
+    when ?1 then "Status code indicates an HTTP informational response."
+    when ?2 then "Status code indicates success."
+    when ?3 then "Status code indicates redirection."
+    when ?4 then "Status code indicates client error."
+    when ?5 then "Status code indicates server error."
+    else "Non-standard status code."
+end
+
+puts 'Server=' + response['Server']
+puts 'SERVER=' + response['SERVER']
+
+puts 'all keys:'
+response.each_key { |key| puts "    #{key}" }
+
+Net::HTTP.get_response('oreilly.com', '/about/') do |response|
+    response.read_body do |segment|
+        puts "Received segment of #{segment.size} byte(s)!"
+    end
+end