From: Erik Veenstra <pan@...>
Date: 2005-06-04T17:55:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Help, how to download a binary file through Net::HTTP

> I'm new to Ruby. I want to download a binary file by
> Net::HTTP or other ways. I mimic the what's been done in the
> "Programming Ruby". But It failed. I want to know what the
> right way is!

You can't download a file. But you can download the contents of
a file and write to a file yourself. And the latter might be a
problem if you open the file with "w" instead of "wb" for
binary files.

gegroet,
Erik V. (http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/)