From: Elliot Temple <curi@...>
Date: 2008-11-07T08:34:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Partial Read From URL

Ara Howard wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Elliot Temple wrote:
> 
>>  s = ""
>>
>> Thanks
>> Elliot Temple
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> 
> 
> maybe try
> 
> 
> require 'open-uri'
> 
> uri = ......
> 
> open(uri){|fd| fd.read 20000}

I did try that, but it downloads the entire file in my tests. I tried it 
on a large file and it takes minutes to return, whereas my code returns 
in a couple seconds. Am I missing something?

> ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [universal-darwin9.0]

Elliot
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