From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-12-15T21:08:45+09:00
Subject: Re: How to do UDP calls

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Luis G. <l17339@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys...
>
> I have a question here and maybe someone can help me.
>
> I wrote a script to get information from some websites. Basically I call
> an url and I get a file as response. I'm using Mechanize to do that,
> like this:
>
> @agent = Mechanize.new do |a|
>      a.history.max_size = 1
>      a.read_timeout = 60
> end
>
> res = @agent.get(url).save_as(path)
>
> After I get the file, I just need to open and extract the information I
> need. Everything is working good.
>
> My problem now is that I have some UDP urls and Mechanize does not
> support UDP urls...
>
> So, my question is, how can I get the files from UDP urls?
> I looked online for gems to do that, but I didn't find anything...
> Any of you can help me?

The standard library has basic UDP functionality already.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/socket/rdoc/classes/UDPSocket.html

Kind regards

robert

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