From: "Thomas B." <tpreal@...>
Date: 2008-09-03T22:37:32+09:00
Subject: Re: downloading files

Marcelo Barbudas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Which is the proper way to download a binary file?
> 
> Trying:
> open(temp_path,"w").write(open(http_path).read)
> 
> returns truncated files
> 
> Cheers,
> M.

Without Mechanize, it's in fact better to do it in two lines:

data=open(remote).read
File::open(local,"wb"){|f| f<<data}

Because now you don't create an empty file in case of net error.
http://al2o3-cr.blogspot.com/2008/08/downloading-file.html

TPR.
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