require 'open-uri' open("http://www.ruby-lang.org/en") do |f| f.each_line {|line| p line} puts f.base_uri # puts f.content_type # "text/html" puts f.charset # "iso-8859-1" puts f.content_encoding # [] puts f.last_modified # Thu Dec 05 02:45:02 UTC 2002 end