From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-07-31T01:09:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18820] Re: Net::HTTP (downloading an image)

Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> writes:

> Yep; I'm checking the downloaded files against the online one; the
> downloaded ones are either completely garbled or consist of large white
> areas, and are basically corrupted: they can't be opened in image
> software.
> WinMe, ruby 1.6.3 (2001-03-19) [i386-cygwin]

Ah - you're on DOS. You need to open the output file in binary mode
("wb"), or every linefeed inthe output will be converted into
"carriage return/linefeed").


Dave