From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2006-09-16T19:42:36+09:00
Subject: Re: download files from web

On 9/16/06, Peter Meier <PeterMeier@antispam.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I already knew that you can use the following code to download a file.
>
> http=Net::HTTP.start(servername)
> resp = http.get(fileName)
>
> But if the files is large this will take some time.
> Is there another package with a progress indication?
>
> Thanks
>   Peter
>
>
you should consider using wget. Open a pipe and pass the location and
you should be ready to go.

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