From: Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@...>
Date: 2010-12-21T04:58:31+09:00
Subject: Re: downloading a file

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Quintus <sutniuq@gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 20.12.2010 19:19, schrieb Rajinder Yadav:
>> i tired using open-uri, but when i read and then save the file it mess
>> up the file? something like this
>>
>> require 'open-uri'
>> url = 'http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.0c.tar.gz'
>> file = open(url)
>> c = file.read
>>
>> f = File.open('openssl-1.0.0c.tar.gz', 'w')
>> f.write c
>> f.close
>
> Try
>
> file = open(url, "rb")
>
> instead of
>
> file = open(url)
>
> and
>
> f = File.open('openssl-1.0.0c.tar.gz', 'wb')
>
> instead of
>
> f = File.open('openssl-1.0.0c.tar.gz', 'w')
>
> . You're downloading a binary file, and Ruby will do bad things to
> newlines in it if you don't pass the "b" for binary.
> Additionally you should have a look at the block form of #open.
>
> Vale,
> Marvin
>
>

Thanks Vale,

that makes sense, i also just found out I can use context_type() to
figure out the file type!

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