From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2007-03-26T12:50:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Read only a few bytes from file


On Mar 25, 2007, at 6:15 PM, toulax@gmail.com wrote:
> I tested on a URL with around 200kb and it took the exact same time
> reading it all vs reading only 8 bytes. I believe this is done in PHP
> via sockets, isn't the same possible with Ruby?

Absolutely.


   require 'open-uri'

   text = open("http://www.google.com") { |f| f.read(8) }

   puts "first eight bytes is: #{text}"



Gary Wright