From: Vivek Nallur <nvivek@...>
Date: 2003-06-04T19:33:54+09:00
Subject: Re: File retrieval problems

Break it down into small steps:

Get the html file
Parse it to get the url for the zip file
get the zip file
use zuby-zip to manipulate the zip file

-Vivek


|On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:57:47PM +0900, kingsley@icecode.org wrote:
|> HI
|>
|> I am struggling with how to do the following in Ruby:
|>
|> go to a url
|> and download a zip file from the site to a location on my hard
|> drive
|>
|> then unzip the file to a folder
|>
|> I need to do this on a windows
|> platform.
|>
|> I\'m guessing I should use try to use the HTTP module in some
|> way to do this? But I can\'t seem to work out how to grab the zip file
|> rather than an html page?
|> The unzipping I guess could be done with
|> system calls, unless Ruby has a way to unzip stuff?