From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-06-05T04:05:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Help, how to download a binary file through Net::HTTP

Erik Veenstra <pan@erikveen.dds.nl> wrote:
> > 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.

A #download(source, dest) might not be such a bad addition to the API,
at that.

martin