From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-11-14T13:33:21+09:00
Subject: Re: can't flush I know why, but no fix

On Friday, November 14, 2003, 2:15:18 PM, T. wrote:

> I figured out why it won't work. i'm using 1.8's open_uri to
> retrieve the url with open(url). as soon as this executes everything
> stops until it downloads the whole file! it isn't a real IO. blah!
> that stinks. not i wonder if net/http and net/ftp do the same since
> that's what oprn_uri is based on. if so then means i might have to
> get down to the socket level just to do a progess reported download.
> frig'n wonderful!

> If anyone knows of a better way, or a code snippet i can steal, Please let me know.


net/ftp allows you to download a file a bit at a time.  Dunno about
net/http.

Gavin