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class method

Net::HTTPSession.start

HTTP.start(address, port = nil, p_addr = :ENV, p_port = nil, p_user = nil, p_pass = nil, opts) → http

HTTP.start(address, port = nil, p_addr = :ENV, p_port = nil, p_user = nil, p_pass = nil, opts) {|http| ... } → object

# File tmp/rubies/ruby-4.1.0-preview1/lib/net/http.rb, line 1049
def HTTP.start(address, *arg, &block) # :yield: +http+
  arg.pop if opt = Hash.try_convert(arg[-1])
  port, p_addr, p_port, p_user, p_pass = *arg
  p_addr = :ENV if arg.size < 2
  port = https_default_port if !port && opt && opt[:use_ssl]
  http = new(address, port, p_addr, p_port, p_user, p_pass)
  http.ipaddr = opt[:ipaddr] if opt && opt[:ipaddr]

  if opt
    if opt[:use_ssl]
      opt = {verify_mode: OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER}.update(opt)
    end
    http.methods.grep(/\A(\w+)=\z/) do |meth|
      key = $1.to_sym
      opt.key?(key) or next
      http.__send__(meth, opt[key])
    end
  end

  http.start(&block)
end

Creates a new Net::HTTP object, http, via Net::HTTP.new:

For arguments address and port, see Net::HTTP.new.
For proxy-defining arguments p_addr through p_pass, see Proxy Server.
For argument opts, see below.

With no block given:

Calls http.start with no block (see start), which opens a TCP connection and HTTP session.
Returns http.

The caller should call finish to close the session:

Example

http = Net::HTTP.start(hostname)
http.started? # => true
http.finish
http.started? # => false

With a block given:

Calls http.start with the block (see start), which:
- Opens a TCP connection and HTTP session.
- Calls the block, which may make any number of requests to the host.
- Closes the HTTP session and TCP connection on block exit.
- Returns the block’s value object.
Returns object.

Example:

Example

hostname = 'jsonplaceholder.typicode.com'
Net::HTTP.start(hostname) do |http|
  puts http.get('/todos/1').body
  puts http.get('/todos/2').body
end

Output:

Example

{
  "userId": 1,
  "id": 1,
  "title": "delectus aut autem",
  "completed": false
}
{
  "userId": 1,
  "id": 2,
  "title": "quis ut nam facilis et officia qui",
  "completed": false
}

If the last argument given is a hash, it is the opts hash, where each key is a method or accessor to be called, and its value is the value to be set.

The keys may include:

Note: If port is nil and opts[:use_ssl] is a truthy value, the value passed to new is Net::HTTP.https_default_port, not port.

See also #start .put .version_1_2 .proxy_class? also in 4.0 · 3.4

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