This is my first post to the ruby mailing lists, so let me first thank all the people who's wonderful work I've made use of -- great stuff!. I've been trying to upload some large files, using Net::HTTP::Put#body_stream=, but have ran into some problems. Most of my initial testing was in cygwin, where most things "just work". upon trying it in the mingw32 build, i got https errors due to openssl doing some non-block fcntls (IO#fcntl "not implemented on this platform"). I switched to the i386-mswin32, but now I getting some more fundamental problems, when doing file reads. I'm typically getting reads back under the requested size, (not a problem), but this is generating premature EOF errors. If I just use File#read, I correctly get the entire file. An irb snippet says it best: irb(main):139:0> f.pos => 1605632 irb(main):140:0> f.read 1024 => nil irb(main):141:0> f.pos => 1605632 irb(main):142:0> f.read 1024 => nil irb(main):143:0> f.sysread 1024 => "R\326ER6qJ\302So\233\321\373\25218\205\260u*\245\212`k\246\300Vo\233\311\373 \252)8\222}z\367\270g58\026x\022q" irb(main):144:0> f.pos => 1606656 irb(main):145:0> f.sysread 1024 => "\340G\370\023\3023\b:R\264C\225\326\213\276\335\244\234O)N\035$3N\307\017\36 0d\261\321A\245\334\250y|\025lo\253\306*\205\316\246\276$`\366\022\255" irb(main):146:0> _.length => 52 irb(main):147:0> f.sysread 1024 EOFError: end of file reached from (irb):147:in `sysread' from (irb):147 from :0 irb(main):148:0> f.pos => 1607680 irb(main):149:0> RUBY_PLATFORM => "i386-mswin32" (FWIW, the file f in question, is just the one-click installer - ruby185-21.exe. f.stat.size correctly yields 27644627). -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.