From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2007-01-22T16:09:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading an HTTPResponse line by line

Scara Maccai wrote:
> Ok, but that's what I did in the first place, but it doesn't allow 
> reading line by line... that is, it looks to me that you can
> 
> 1) reading as chunks come in
> 
> OR
> 
> 2) reading line by line
> 
> but you can't
> 
> "reading lines as they come in..."

chunks are made out of lines; it's not so difficult to process each
line as the chunks come in:

buffer = ""
req = Net::HTTP.new('10.2.1.2')
req.post('/mycgi', mydata) do |chunk|
   buffer << chunk
   while buffer.sub!(/^(.*)\n/,"")
     do_something_with_line($1)
   end
end

Daniel