Ross Bamford
12/23/2006 9:31:00 PM
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:04:33 -0000, Mariano Kamp <mariano.kamp@acm.org>
wrote:
>
> On Dec 23, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Ross Bamford wrote:
>
>>
>> If you have libcurl and are willing to install an extension, the
>> rececently released (;)) Curb 0.1 makes this as easy as:
> Thanks for the tip Ross.
>
Sure :)
> I tried gem install curb ;-) but that didn't work. And as the other
> version is already downloading the files and I just wanted this program
> to do this single job I will try out curb the next time ;-)
>
I hear you on the rubygem thing. In preparation for next time, you might
try that gem install again - it should work now ;)
> You've implemented it in C, so you probably can't answer my question how
> you dealt with the buffer size too, can you?
I just left that to the experts - although libcurl does provide some
opportunity for fiddling with it's buffers, it generally seems to do
pretty well with it's defaults so none of that's exposed in Ruby yet.
Cheers,
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Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk