From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2010-08-30T08:13:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Downloading corrupted files

On 08/28/2010 02:44 AM, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have created small program to download files from website. I am using
> netbeans and JRuby. When I run program, it downloads files no problem,
> however, if I run it outside netbeans, it downloads files of similar
> size, but they are corrupted and compare by content shows many
> differences.
>
> Code:
>
> def download_to_folder(folder, replay_name,id)
>      Dir.chdir("D:\\Starcraft\\Replays\\"+folder)
>      writeout = open(replay_name, "w")
>      writeout.write(open("http://www.sc2rep.com/replays/download?id="+id.to_s).read)
>      writeout.close
>    end
>
> Configuration (maybe it helps): Windows 7 64bit, Ruby 1.9.1-p243,
> Netbeans 6.8 with JRuby 1.8.7 (2009-11-04 patchlevel 174) [java]
>    
Try it with open(replay_name, "wb") to open the file in binary mode.

-Justin