From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-12-27T23:48:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP::get statis of a chunked response

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, [iso-8859-1] An�bal wrote:

> Hello,
>
>    I am using a code like:
>
>    # using block
>    File.open('result.txt', 'w') {|f|
>      resp, data = http.get('/~foo/') do |str|
>        f.write str
>      end
>    }
>
>    To read a chunked response from a server (a large file) Docs say:
> "In version 1.2, this method never raises exception."
>
>    How can I know if the transfer was Ok? Just checking the size
> reported by the content-length header against the size of the file
> written to disk? Or is there any other recommended way?
>
>    Thanks in advance,


harp:~ > cat a.rb
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
require 'yaml'

%w[
   http://www.google.com/index.html
   http://www.google.com/non-index.html
].each do |uri|

   uri = URI.parse uri
   http = Net::HTTP.new uri.host
   r = http.get(uri.path){|s| s}
   y uri.to_s => r.code
   r.value                       # this will raise an error iff code is not 200
end


harp:~ > ruby a.rb
http://www.google.com/index.html: "200"
http://www.google.com/non-index.html: "404"
/home/ahoward//lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2065:in `error!': 404 "Not Found" (Net::HTTPServerException)
         from /home/ahoward//lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2074:in `value'
         from a.rb:14
         from a.rb:7



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