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Checking for Errors and Redirects

require 'net/http' def get_web_document(url)   uri = URI.parse(url)   response = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)   case response     when Net::HTTPSuccess:       return response.body     when Net::HTTPRedirection:       return get_web_document(response['Location'])     else       return nil   end end puts get_web_document('http://www.rubyinside.com/test.txt') puts get_web_document('http://www.rubyinside.com/non-existent')