Question

This is the code I am using to get the xml data from Apple’s UK Top 10 rss feed:

xml = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse('http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ws/RSS/topsongs/limit=10/xml')).body

Sinatra returns Errno::ECONNRESET at / - Connection reset by peer.
The RSS url I used for this was generated from the Apple RSS generator here. The error occurs with other countries’ rss feeds but does NOT occur with the default feed (US) found here. The backtrace is below:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb in read_nonblock
        @rbuf << @io.read_nonblock(BUFSIZE)
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb in rbuf_fill
        @rbuf << @io.read_nonblock(BUFSIZE)
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb in readuntil
          rbuf_fill
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb in readline
      readuntil("\n").chop
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb in read_status_line
        str = sock.readline
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb in read_new
        httpv, code, msg = read_status_line(sock)
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb in block in transport_request
          res = HTTPResponse.read_new(@socket)
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb in catch
      res = catch(:response) {
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb in transport_request
      res = catch(:response) {
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb in request
      res = transport_request(req, &block)
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb in request_get
      request(Get.new(path, initheader), &block)
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb in block in get_response
          return http.request_get(uri.request_uri, &block)
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb in start
          return yield(self)
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb in get_response
        new(uri.hostname, uri.port).start {|http|
/home/sinatra/little.rb in block in <top (required)>
    xml = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse('https://itunes.apple.com/gb/rss/topsongs/limit=5/xml')).body
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/httpserver.rb in service
      si.service(req, res)
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/httpserver.rb in run
          server.service(req, res)
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/server.rb in block in start_thread
          block ? block.call(sock) : run(sock)

Answer 1

Solved this myself. Turns out I was using the wrong Net:HTTP command. Should have been Net::HTTP.get('itunes.apple.com','/gb/rss/topsongs/limit=10/xml')