specs fail with "couldn't connect to host" about patron HOT 5 CLOSED

Did you start script/test_server before running the specs?

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Where i can find it ? i don't have it in script directory.

I try to run spec becouse patron im my production application has a strange error "couldn't connect to host". It raise for a randomly URLs. For example:

ree-1.8.7-2010.01 > require 'rubygems'
=> true
ree-1.8.7-2010.01 > require 'patron'
=> true
ree-1.8.7-2010.01 > sess = Patron::Session.new
=> #Patron::Session:0x902e190
ree-1.8.7-2010.01 > sess.head("http://www.avast.com/rus/download-avast-home.html")
Patron::ConnectionFailed: couldn't connect to host

But i know what this URL is work!

curl --head "http://www.avast.com/rus/download-avast-home.html"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:56:19 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:25:37 GMT
ETag: "1b7c553-808e-67321a40"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 32910
Content-Type: text/html

And same issue with other randomly URLs. I can't find any dependency for what may raise this error.
Can you help me?

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Where did you get the source from? A repository cloned from GitHub will have a script directory with two scripts "console" and "test_server".

I have not seen the behavior you describe and cannot reproduce it with the URL you provided. The fact that the error is intermittent indicates to me that the problem is an environmental one. The ConnectionFailed exception means that libcurl returned CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT when establishing the connection. Perhaps there is an issue with your Internet connection or firewall?

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I tried run specs from installed gem. You can close this bug. Specs have already passed but issue with "couldn't connect to host" is still present on my two machines Ubuntu and CentOS with different internet connection and location. Maybe problem with the same version of libcurl...It needs additional investigation.
Thanks for help.

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OK. Let me know if you need anything else.

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