在 Ruby 中发出 HEAD 请求

我对 ruby​​ 有点陌生，有 python 背景 我想向 URL 发出头请求并检查一些信息，例如文件是否存在于服务器上以及时间戳、etag 等，我无法在 RUBY 中完成此操作。

在Python中：

import httplib2
print httplib2.Http().request('url.com/file.xml','HEAD')

在 Ruby 中：我尝试了这个并抛出了一些错误

require 'net/http'

Net::HTTP.start('url.com'){|http|
   response = http.head('/file.xml')
}
puts response


SocketError: getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
    from /Users/comcast/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:877:in `initialize'
    from /Users/comcast/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:877:in `open'
    from /Users/comcast/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:877:in `block in connect'
    from /Users/comcast/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/timeout.rb:51:in `timeout'
    from /Users/comcast/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:876:in `connect'
    from /Users/comcast/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:861:in `do_start'
    from /Users/comcast/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:850:in `start'
    from /Users/comcast/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:582:in `start'
    from (irb):2
    from /Users/comcast/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin/irb:16:in `<main>'

我意识到这个问题已经得到了解答，但我也必须经历一些困难。下面是更具体的开始：

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'net/http'
require 'net/https' # for openssl

uri = URI('http://stackoverflow.com')
path = '/questions/16325918/making-head-request-in-ruby'

response=nil
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
# http.use_ssl = true                            # if using SSL
# http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE   # for example, when using self-signed certs

response = http.head(path)
response.each { |key, value| puts key.ljust(40) + " : " + value }