From: Sam Gentle <sgentle@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T12:06:12+09:00
Subject: Re: how to get an IO object for the response from an HTTP get?

On 7/27/06, Tim Olsen <tolsen718@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to get an IO object instead of a string for the response of
> an HTTP get.  I am using the Net/HTTP library but it seems to only
> want to give me a string.  I have a situation where the response can
> be quite large and do not want the whole response to have to be in
> memory.
>
> Is it possible to get an IO object for the response without putting
> the whole response in memory?

It's possible to pass a block to HTTPResponse#get, which will yield a
chunk of data each time. That said, you're probably better served by
using open-uri, which lets you do this:

require 'open-uri'
open('http://www.google.com') do |f|
#f is an IO object, yay!
end

Sam