From: Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@...>
Date: 2010-12-21T05:10:57+09:00
Subject: Re: downloading a file

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!
>

Thanks Marvin, tired eyes got the name wrong  =)

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Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav