From: Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Date: 2002-02-19T20:59:36+09:00
Subject: Re: a file name with space for http

In mail "a file name with space for http"
moontoeki@aol.com (Sung Moon) wrote:

> a file name with space for http
> 
> my Ruby 1.6.5 platform is "i386-cygwin" on windows 98
> 
> i have a trouble for downloading a file using http protocol, like
> response , = http.get( "#{FILE_NAME}" )
> 
> one web site has a file name with space in the name.
> how to change the space?
> I tried "file name" and "file%20name" which is used in browser,
> but it failed.

I could get files which name includes spaces, like this:

  ~ $ mkdir public_html
  ~ $ echo 'test ok' > 'public_html/a a'
  ~ $ ruby-1.6.5 -r net/http -e 'Net::HTTP.get_print "localhost", "/~aamine/a%20a", 8080'
  test ok

More generaly,

  require 'net/http'
  require 'cgi'

  host = ....
  port = ....
  path = ....
  Net::HTTP.start(host, port) {|http|
      res, = http.get(CGI.escape(path))
  }

FYI: I cannot encode path automatically because it might
     includes already URL-encoded string.

-- Minero Aoki