From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T23:07:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Extra CR chars inserted into a downloaded file

On May 26, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Nate Morse wrote:
> Hello all,
> Could anyone help shed light on some pesky (extra) Carrige Rreturns  
> '\r's
>
> I'm in a windows environment, and I'm seeing extra chars in a download
> vs. direct file access.
> normally I would not care but later I will be checking MD5's on both
> sides and they will not match.
>
> # Ruby file downloadFile.rb
> require 'open-uri'
>
> open("http://localhost/test/test.txt") {|f|
>  f.each_line {|line| p line}
>  p f.content_type
>  p f.charset + '\n'
>
> }
>
> File.open("C:/www/test/test.txt", "r") {|f|
>    f.each_line {|line| p line}
> }
>
> # EOF
>
> -->
>
>> ruby downloadFile.rb
> "abcdefg\r\n"
> "abcdefg\r\n"
> "abcdefg\r\n"
> "text/plain"
> "iso-8859-1"
>
> "abcdefg\n"
> "abcdefg\n"
> "abcdefg\n"
>> Exit code: 0
>
> thanks,
> Nate Morse

I would blame the webserver before ruby... Try to make the webserver  
consider .txt to be binary data, and see what happens.
-Mat