Does anyone know if there's a maximum number of open connections allowed
when using hpricot/net::http?

I have a bunch of xml feeds I need to read via hpricot and write to disk.
Whenever I hit it too hard/fast, or when I try to open several files in
hpricot in a loop, my app dies.

If I do something like...

arr = [url1, url2, url2]
arr.each do|d|
  doc  = Hpricot(open(d))
  doc.search(blah...)
  File.open("#{RAILS_ROOT}/xml/#{file_name}.xml", 'w') {|f| f.write doc }
end

I get:

OpenURI::HTTPError: 500 Internal Server Error        from
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:277:in
`open_http'
        from
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:616:in
`buffer_open'
        from
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in
`open_loop'
        from
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in
`catch'
        from
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in
`open_loop'
        from
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:132:in
`open_uri'
        from
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:518:in
`open'
        from
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:30:in
`open'
        from (irb):11
        from (irb):11:in `each'
        from (irb):11

Am I missing something here, or is there a better way of doing this? I'm on
Ruby 1.8.7 and hpricot 0.8.2

Thanks
Robbie

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