From: Lars Haugseth <njus@...>
Date: 2008-10-02T18:33:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Mirroring large files over HTTP

* Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> 
> 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?

Nice enough, but one will need a bit more than that singke line to do the
whole operation from start to finish.

I was thinking more of something like SomeClass.mirror(url, filename).

-- 
Lars Haugseth

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