From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-10-30T01:49:42+09:00
Subject: Re: From a Ruby Script, How to automatically login to www.netflix.com

Abe Vionas_MailingList wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:49:07 +0900, Carl Youngblood
> wrote:
> 
>> Another option is the CURL library.  You could
> 
> execute curl commands
> 
>> in backticks for a quick-and-dirty solution or check
> 
> out _why's
> 
>> explanation of Ruby/DL for a more elegant solution.
> 
>  He specifically
> 
>> demonstrates a little example with libcurl.
> 
> 
> I didn't have a lot of luck finding Ruby/DL - at least
> for windows - when I went looking for it. It seems
> quite elusive. Mention is made a while ago of
> continuing development on Ruby-DL2 but any related
> links are dead. My 2c.

It's actually a part of the Ruby standard library as of 1.8. Thus, you 
should just be able to 'require "dl"' and have at it.

MAJOR drawback of Ruby/DL, though, is lack of documentation. It can be 
very discouraging.

- Jamis

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