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CHAPTER 6 n TRACKING AUCTIONS WITH EBAY 124
The second line actually calls the API, using the Net::HTTP.get method. This is a convenience
method that skips several steps for you. Normally, you would need to open a
connection to the server, request the document represented by url_path, and then close
the connection. Fortunately, the Net:HTTP.get method does all that and returns a string,
which represents the body of eBay??™s response to your request.
Next, you need to create an Hpricot object to parse the response. After that, you can
use Hpricot to loop through the XML:
hpricot_doc = Hpricot.XML(response.body)
Incidentally, the XML you??™re parsing looks something like this:

2007-08-12T20:31:11.148Z
Success
525
e525_core_Bundled_5124914_R1

120148832189

2007-08-05T13:39:30.

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