From: Konstantin Levinski <konstantin.levinski@...>
Date: 2006-04-03T00:58:45+09:00
Subject: Re: sending files over a network

If you know how to work with files, and how to set up connections
(TCPServer/TCPSocket) you know enough to send a file over network with
Ruby. Performance will be network-limited, so don't worry too much
about it.

You can use MD5/SHA1 for additional error checking, for error checking,
tough TCP has this feature on its own.

pseudocode ( as in - not tested but with a couple of fixes should
probably work )

- sender:
name="file.txt"; len = File.new(name).stat.size.to_s
socket = TCPSocket.new('remote.host.org', 6666)
socket.puts name
socket.pits.len
socket.write File.read(name)
socket.close

- reciever:
socket = TCPServer.new('0.0.0.0', 6666).accept
name = socket.gets
len = socket.gets
File.open(name, "wb") { | fl | fl.write (socket.read len.to_i ) }
socket.close
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HTH