From: Tim Olsen <tolsen718@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T01:12:34+09:00
Subject: Re: how to get an IO object for the response from an HTTP get?

I think I figured it out.  I can use HTTPResponse#read_body

thanks for the help!

-Tim

On 7/27/06, Tim Olsen <tolsen718@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/26/06, Sam Gentle <sgentle@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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:
>
>
> irb(main):001:0> require 'net/http'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> Net::HTTPResponse.get
> NoMethodError: undefined method `get' for Net::HTTPResponse:Class
>         from (irb):2
> irb(main):003:0>
>
> I'd rather use the HTTP library because I'd like to use this for other
> HTTP methods as well, such as propget, etc.
>
> thanks,
> Tim
>
> >
> > require 'open-uri'
> > open('http://www.google.com') do |f|
> > #f is an IO object, yay!
> > end
> >
> > Sam
> >
> >
>
>