From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-06-18T02:07:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Downloading Image


On Jun 17, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Doug Bromley 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?
>
Are you on Windows? Try
outfile = open("C:/logo.gif", "wb")

You need to open the file in `binary' mode to make it not  
automatically translate line endings.

> Sorry for being a pain but I've looked in the mailing list and various
> source files but none seem to be shedding any light so I'd be very  
> grateful
> for your input.
>
> All the best.
>
> Doug