From: Nate Morse <morse.nate@...>
Date: 2006-05-27T01:21:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Extra CR chars inserted into a downloaded file

Hi Mat et.al.
Trying various Apache config settings such as:
    # tried others such as application/x-gzip and application/octet-stream ...
    AddType application/x-other .txt

yeilds:
p f.content_type --> 'application/x-other'
p f.charset         --> nil

but the extra \r's are still appearing "abcdefg\r\n",
also I downloaded the same file using FireFox with no extra chars
hmmm... do I dive into the source of Net::HTTP, or is the jury still
out on Apache
--Nate

On 5/26/06, Mat Schaffer <schapht@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >  print "\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
>
>
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