On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Brian Candler <b.candler / pobox.com> wrote:
> Rajinder Yadav wrote in post #969592:
>>> Use wget [-c]
>>
>> ruby has a wget command? i want to do this from ruby code, and with no
>> backquote either
>
> I was thinking of:
>
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>
> If you don't have wget on your system, I'm afraid I don't know of an
> existing Ruby library which does download-to-file with restarting of
> partial transfers.
>
> You can cobble something together using Net::HTTP, but to do the
> restarts you'll have to use the set_range method to add the Range:
> header - see RFC 2616 section 14.35.
>
> Note that old HTTP servers may ignore the Range: header, so you should
> check that the response content_range is what you asked for.

well if i just want to download a file, is there something i can use
that is simple?

i tired using open-uri, but when i read and then save the file it mess
up the file? something like this

require 'open-uri'
url = 'http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.0c.tar.gz'
file = open(url)
c = file.read

f = File.open('openssl-1.0.0c.tar.gz', 'w')
f.write c
f.close


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