From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-08-06T14:18:23+09:00
Subject: Remote require

Assume there is actual code underneath (probably involving open-uri), 
and that I've got soul.rb, and I'm superbad.com

# File soul.rb lives on a remote Web server
$:.push( 'http://www.superbad.com' )

require 'soul' # Fetch from server if not found locally


Has anyone already implemented something like (I expect why_ to speak up 
here)?

I should probably use hack 'require' to use open-uri, and play around, 
but it's late and just wanted to toss this out.

What are the less-obvious issues with this way of fetching code?  Let's 
assume crypto code signing and authentication and the like.


James

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