From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2002-11-14T08:37:31+09:00
Subject: Re: File Packing Ideas

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:23:15AM +0900, Vera, Michael wrote:
> I am testing the CGI solution now, and it may do the trick. Better would
> even be bzipped data.
> 
> I essentially get one shot to pass a complete file to a remote socket
> connection, and want to do it in the neatest, most reliable, and even
> smallest, fashion.
> 
> All ideas will be considered :) As I said I tried various pack, gsub,
> Marshall ways, but am not totally satisfied yet.

How about open, write, close? TCP sockets are 8-bit clean.

"Cleaner" (in the sense of more standardised, better control, ability to do
authentication etc) would be to use a HTTP POST. The far end could then be
just a webserver.

If you want the semantics of a "file transfer" then you could use FTP.

There are built-in Ruby libraries for HTTP and FTP.

Regards,

Brian.