From: cremes.devlist@...
Date: 2006-06-13T04:39:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Get file over web


On Jun 12, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Magnus Holm wrote:

> Hi! I'm looking for a function to get the contents from a file on the
> web into a string. Something like in PHP: $string =
> file_get_contents("http://php.net");

     require 'net/http'
     require 'uri'

     url = URI.parse('http://www.example.com/index.html')
     res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) {|http|
       http.get('/index.html')
     }
     puts res.body

The HTTP get is put into the 'res' variable. 'res.body' is the String.

See the documentation for Net::HTTP at http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/

cr