Handling Net :: HTTP.get Failures

Question

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page_source = Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse("http://not-a-real-url.com")) 

When passing a URL that is correctly formatted but doesn't go anywhere (as in the example above), it dies with:

 getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known 

I am trying to figure out how to “start / save” this condition, but I cannot find in the documentation what error, if any, the get method throws.

Answer 1

Does it help?

 begin page_source = Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse("http://not-a-real-url.com")) rescue SocketError => e puts e.message end