From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2006-06-18T02:07:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Downloading Image

On 6/17/06, Doug Bromley <doug.bromley@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello again
>
> As an extension on my previous image problem I can't even successfully
> download images from a URL location.  I though tthe following simple GET
> request along with writing the result to a file would work but it mangles
> the image and makes it unreadable.
>
> Net::HTTP.start("www.example.com") do |http|
>   resp = http.get("/images/logo.gif")
>   outfile = open("C:/logo.gif", "w")
>   outfile.write(resp.body)
>   outfile.close
> end
>
> Have I done something wrong here?  Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?
>
As you're running on Windows, you need to open the file in binary
mode, ie. open("C:/logo.gif", "wb").

Regards,
Sean