From: Tjabo Kloppenburg Date: 2001-02-10T20:17:58+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:10667] reading file from URL hi, I know Perl and PHP, and now I'm trying to learn ruby. In PHP I can read lines from a file (URL) just by using fopen(URL, mode) and fgets(...). Is it right that ruby's File.open works only with local files? If yes - how can I access distant files (URLs) ? regards, tk (I've had a look over the mail archive, but didn't find this topic) -- Tjabo Kloppenburg web.intru.de/tapo/