From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-10-02T17:36:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Mirroring large files over HTTP

On Oct 2, 2008, at 01:03 AM, Lars Haugseth wrote:
> Turns out the OpenURI module is indeed fetching the remote resource
> in segments and storing to a temporary file. However, my code above
> will read the complete contents of that file into memory before
> writing it back out to another file.
>
> I'm a little surprised not to find any convenience method in the  
> standard
> libraries doing all this for me, though.

Why? It's all of one line:

output.write input.read(16384) until input.eof?