In #Ruby, the HTTP class is called Net::HTTP and is required with `require ‘net/http’`

[veganstraightedge@ruby.social]

In #Ruby, the HTTP class is called Net::HTTP and is required with `require ‘net/http’`

I’m curious if there were other `net/???` classes in the past? Did they go away? What else could/should be in `net/…`?

[marcoroth@ruby.social]

@veganstraightedge quite a few actually:
https://github.com/ruby?q=net-&type=all

[drbrain@mastodon.social]

@veganstraightedge also built in are/were:
Net::FTP
Net::IMAP
Net::POP3
Net::SMTP

[gregw@mastodon.world]

@veganstraightedge I used to use net/ftp (or net/sftp) with some regularity in the old days! A customer needed lots of little scripts that either downloaded or uploaded data to ftp servers.

So many business processes powered by csv files on a file server somewhere.

[pointlessone@status.pointless.one]

@drbrain @veganstraightedge
Net::SSH
Net::NTP
Net::SFTP
Net::LDAP
Net::Telnet (relatively new)
Net::Ping

There are a lot of them out there.