Ruby's open-uri and cookies

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I would like to store the cookies from one open-uri call and pass them to the next one. I can't seem to find the right docs for doing this. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me the right way to do this.
NOTES: w3.org is not the actual url, but it's shorter; pretend cookies matter here.

h1 = open("http://www.w3.org/")
h2 = open("http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/", "Cookie" => h1.FixThisSpot)

Update after 2 nays: While this wasn't intended as rhetorical question I guarantee that it's possible. Update after tumbleweeds: See (the answer), it's possible. Took me a good while, but it works.

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Thanks Matthew Schinckel your answer was really useful. Using Net::HTTP I was successful 

        # Create a new connection object.
          site = "google.com"
          port = 80
          conn = Net::HTTP.new(site, port)

        # Get the response when we login, to set the cookie.
        # body is the encoded arguments to log in.
          resp, data = conn.post(login_path, body, {})
          cookie = resp.response['set-cookie']

        # Headers need to be in a hash.
          headers = { "Cookie" => cookie }

        # On a get, we don't need a body.
          resp, data = conn.get(path, headers)

          puts resp.body
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