From: Jonas Pfenniger <zimba.tm@...>
Date: 2006-11-20T08:18:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Curb 0.0.1 - New ruby libcurl bindings

On 19/11/06, Ross Bamford <rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:32:01 -0000, Jonas Pfenniger <zimba.tm@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks ross !
> >
> > Does the lib support streams of datas ?
> >
>
> It depends on what you mean. Theres still some work to do integrating with
> Curl's stream handling, so for the most part the answer is "not directly"
> - it's not yet at the point where you can pass in IO handles. So if you're
> after streamed PUTs and so forth you're out of luck right now (especially
> since PUT isn't actually supported yet, either ;)).
>
> OTOH If you're just doing big downloads and don't want to keep it all in
> memory until you're done, theres more support for that - you can supply
> your own header and body handlers as needed, e.g:
>
> File.open('some.file', 'w+') do |f|
>    Curl.perform('http://your/url') do |curl|
>      curl.on_body { |data| f << data }
>    end
> end
>
> Also, when doing HTTP file uploads with POST, if you supply a filename for
> the post-field then the upload file won't ever get wholly read into
> memory, either (libcurl takes care of the stream itself).

Thanks Ross, this is exaclty what I was looking for. I'll try the lib later out.

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