From: Janus Bor <janus@...>
Date: 2008-07-02T20:49:26+09:00
Subject: [rubyzip + open-uri] reading zipfiles from a url?

Hi everyone!

I'm trying to read a zipfile directly from a url. However, open-uri and
rubyzip don't seem to cooperate very well:

require 'zip/zip'
require 'open-uri'

url = "http://www.cibiv.at/%7Ephuong/vien/8a375.zip"
zip_file = Zip::ZipFile.open(url)

This code produces a ZipError, saying it can't find the zip file.
open-uri obviously does not support Zip::ZipFile.open. I'm pretty new to
Ruby (and programming in general), is there any other way to open the
zipfile directly?

Writing all zipfiles to a new file on the hd would be a nightmare
perfomance wise, as I only need a few very small files out of every
zipfile, but I need to process a few hundred zipfiles...

Thanks in advance!
 Janus
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