From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-11-16T19:37:18+09:00
Subject: Re: HTTP IO??

Horacio Sanson wrote:
> I am developing a streaming client in ruby, so far so good... now I
> am trying to get Net::HTTP to behave like an IO with no luck. I need
> Net::HTTP to read the headers as it usually does but stop at before
> reading the body of the page so I can read the stream in chunks and
> feed them to the player.
>
> I read this article
>
>
http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/theStoryOfStreamingHttpThroughMouseholeWithSubsequentAdventuresInContinuationsAndDuckTyping.html
>
> but I can't get it to work.
>
> any help is appreciated.....

open-uri can help you - although you won't see headers

>> require 'open-uri'
=> true
>> open("http://www.google.com/index.html") {|io| p io.read }

Kind regards

    robert