--- a\ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\webrick\httprequest.rb	Tue Feb 13 03:01:20 2007
+++ b\ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\webrick\httprequest.rb	Thu May  7 16:45:54 2009
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@
 require 'webrick/httputils'
 require 'webrick/cookie'
 
+# IronRuby bug: IO#read seems to chop off the first char
+
+class TCPSocket
+  def read size
+    recv size
+  end
+end
+
 module WEBrick
 
   class HTTPRequest
@@ -161,8 +166,8 @@
     end
 
     def to_s
-      ret = @request_line.dup
-      @raw_header.each{|line| ret << line }
+      ret = @request_line ? @request_line.dup : ""
+      @raw_header.each{|line| ret << line } if @raw_header
       ret << CRLF
       ret << body if body
       ret