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instance method

Net::HTTPResponse#body

body

lib/net/http/response.rb View on GitHub ↗

# File tmp/rubies/ruby-3.2.0/lib/net/http/response.rb, line 379
def body
  read_body()
end

Returns the full entity body.

Calling this method a second or subsequent time will return the string already read.

Example

http.request_get('/index.html') {|res|
  puts res.body
}

http.request_get('/index.html') {|res|
  p res.body.object_id   # 538149362
  p res.body.object_id   # 538149362
}

See also #body= .response_class .read_status_line #body_encoding= also in 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.1 · 3.0

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