If you're doing this on windows you need to specify that you're writing binary.

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henning von Rosen [mailto:henning / ikso.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 3:42 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:25349] downloading pictures using 'net/http'
> 
> 
> hi!
> 
>  I wrote a little convinience script, that (using 'net/http') is given a
> web-page, and
> downloads it and all its locally linked documents (for later studying). This
> works fine for text. But pictures
> (both .gif and .jpg) are messed up.
> 
> I suppose the 'net/http' treats them as text in an unhealthu way. What do I
> need for fetching pics and writing them to disk?
> 
> thanks
> 
> /H
>