Alternative to open-uri?

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I'm using open-uri to open a very large web file. This is all fine and
dandy, I thought, until I saw how much memory it was using. I can deal
with a little bit of memory taken up, but memory up to the size of the
file is just too much.

Does anyone know any alternatives to open-uri, different methods I
could use, etc?

Thank you very much!

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What are you planning to do with the file? Store it to disk slice-by-slice
as you receive it from the network?

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On 7/16/06, CBlair1986 <CBlair1986@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm using open-uri to open a very large web file. This is all fine and
dandy, I thought, until I saw how much memory it was using. I can deal
with a little bit of memory taken up, but memory up to the size of the
file is just too much.

Does anyone know any alternatives to open-uri, different methods I
could use, etc?

Thank you very much!

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In article <1153077206.189153.54380@35g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
  "CBlair1986" <CBlair1986@gmail.com> writes:

I'm using open-uri to open a very large web file. This is all fine and
dandy, I thought, until I saw how much memory it was using. I can deal
with a little bit of memory taken up, but memory up to the size of the
file is just too much.

open-uri use Tempfile for large file. (> 10k)
So it shouldn't consume much memory.

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Tanaka Akira