From: "A. S. Bradbury" <asbradbury@...>
Date: 2006-06-13T04:46:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Get file over web

On Monday 12 June 2006 20:22, 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");

Check out open-uri:
http://ruby.outertrack.com/file/ruby-1.8.4%2Flib%2Fopen-uri.rb
This is one possibility:

  uri = URI.parse("http://php.net")
  string = uri.read

Alex