From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2009-04-14T13:26:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Potential bug in Net::HTTP, and tentative patch

Hi,

At Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:33:01 +0900,
Yves-Eric Martin wrote in [ruby-talk:333820]:
> Other than my quick and dirty patch, is there a way to tell Net::HTTP
> to ignore the EOFError and accept non-compliant input? Again, the point
> is that an image, which displays fine in Internet Explorer, Firefox and
> Safari, cannot be downloaded with Net::HTTP. While I understand the
> "not RFC-compliant" argument, for practical reasons, it does seem a bit
> limiting...

See rdoc of Net::HTTPResponse#read_body and
Net::HTTP#request_get.

  out = "" # or open(destfile, "wb")
  begin
    Net::HTTP.get_response(uri) do |res|
      res.read_body {|s| out << s}
    end
  rescue EOFError
  end

-- 
Nobu Nakada