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require 'socket'
puts "Please enter host:"
hostname = STDIN.gets.chop # Read host and remove the newline
port = 80
s = TCPSocket.open(hostname, port)
s.write("HEAD / HTTP/1.0\n")
s.write("\n")
while line = s.gets # Read lines from the socket
puts line.chop # And print with platform line terminator
end
s.close
#4. Modify the program TCPClient.java in the book (or write a new program in C or Java) and use it to
#connect to a web server and download a web page using HTTP/1.0. (You don’t have to interpret or
#understand the HTML code you get from it.) If needed, read the specification (RFC) to make sure that
#you get all CR (\r) and LF (\n) in the correct place. The program should be able to take a page request
#from the user (e.g. your favorite home page).
#Output from the program should be either a correct error message (web server not found, page not
#found, access forbidden, etc.) or the number of characters of data it received from the server.
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