------ art_86832_10320096.1153079489156 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline What are you planning to do with the file? Store it to disk slice-by-slice as you receive it from the network? On 7/16/06, CBlair1986 <CBlair1986 / gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm using open-uri to open a very large web file. This is all fine and > dandy, I thought, until I saw how much memory it was using. I can deal > with a little bit of memory taken up, but memory up to the size of the > file is just too much. > > Does anyone know any alternatives to open-uri, different methods I > could use, etc? > > Thank you very much! > > > ------ art_86832_10320096.1153079489156--