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Excuse the tabs. I'm trying to download a file from remote to local and I keep getting one back that is exactly 310 bytes (regardless of what file I choose to download). I tried setting the timeout to 0, but this isn't working. What am I doing wrong? Thanks! 

 @downloadUrl = 'https://username:[email protected]' Net::HTTP.start(@downloadUrl) do |http| response = http.get('/file.ext') open('/Users/me/file.ext', "wb", :read_timeout=>0) do |file| file.write(response.body) end end

EDIT: I don't want to use httpclient, I want to use standard net/http. I am almost there, but I keep getting initialize': getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known (SocketError) thrown at Net::HTTP.start(url.path). But when I remote "https", I get ECONNREFUSED. ...Getting closer?

 url = URI.parse('https://api.net/file.ext') @request = Net::HTTP.start(url.path) @request.basic_auth 'username', 'password' sock = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, 443) sock.use_ssl = true sock.ssl_version='SSLv3' sock.start do |http| response = http.get(@request) open('/Users/me/file.ext', "wb", :read_timeout=>0) do |file| file.write(response.body) end end
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Using httpclient is much simpler when accessing via SSL.

gem install httpclient

I haven't tried this out, but this should work for you. Here is the rdoc.

require 'httpclient' domain = "https://api.net/file.ext" username = "username" password = "password" clnt = HTTPClient.new clnt.set_auth(domain, username, password) res = clnt.get_content(https_url)

You can refer to the "writing a binary file in ruby" question for saving your response to a file.

Updated Using net/http

You should be doing Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) instead of Net:HTTP.start(url.path). See RDoc for Net::HTTP.start.

url = URI.parse("https://api.net/file.ext") download_file = opne("/Users/me/file.ext", "wb") request = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) # .. set basic auth, verify peer etc begin request.request_get(url.path) do |resp| resp.read_body { |segment| download_file.write(segment) } end ensure download_file.close end
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Thanks, but I want to use the standard net:http if possible! Updated code for current try (essentially the same new code works with get, post, delete ).