Seamlessly Return A String From Http Or Https Feeds

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        // This class uses URI module to detect regular or secure links, and returns the response as a string, in my case to pass onto a feed parser like simple-rss. I'm working on a simple http authentication addon.

#beef.
require 'net/http'
require 'net/https'
require 'simple-rss'

class SeamlessFeed
  def initialize(url,user=nil,password=nil)
    @url = URI.parse(url)
  end

  def output
    if self.is_secure?
      http = Net::HTTP.new(@url.host, 443)
      http.use_ssl = true
      http.start do |http|
        request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(@url.path)
        @response = http.request(request)
        @response.value
      end
    else
      @response = Net::HTTP.get_response(@url) #Why can't they all be like this, eh?
    end
    return @response.body
  end

  def is_readable?
    feed = SimpleRSS.parse(self.output)
    return true unless feed.channel.items.size < 1
  rescue SimpleRSSError
    return false
  end

protected
  def is_secure?
    @url.scheme == 'https'
  end
end

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• http
• RSS
• Ruby