cleaned up XKCD#comic

lib/xkcd.rb

@@ -13,20 +13,13 @@ class XKCD
     #   => "http://xkcd.com/891/"
 
     def self.comic()
-       # This method gets random comic links from xkcd, the uri is the redirected location found in the resp headers
-       uri = URI.parse 'http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/'
-       req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
-       http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host)
-       res = http.start { |server|
-       server.request(req)
-       }
-       res["location"]
+       open('http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/').base_uri.to_s
     end
 
     def self.img
         url = 'http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/'
         html = open(url).read()
-        imgs = URI.extract(html).select{ |l| l[/comics\//]} 
-        imgs.first       
+        imgs = URI.extract(html).select{ |l| l[/comics\//]}
+        imgs.first
     end
 end