If the above link is a URI representing the file ... no, it's a request to anotherdomain.com for getting the resource with ID 579633
when I use this url in a browser : "http://www.anotherdomain.com/ resource/download/579633" then the file (a pdf file in this case) is automatically downloaded I guess the site is a RoR site, and my request is processed and the file is sent using send_file so, I cannot use this url has a file url directly.... GET "http:// www.anotherdomain.com/resource/download/579633" On 15 sep, 03:58, Robert Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Kad Kerforn wrote: > > In my app, I have an URL to download a file from a remote site , when > > using this URL in a browser I download the file... > > > "http://www.anotherdomain.com/resource/download/579633"; > > > but I need to to get the content of this file within my app , as I > > must encode it and transfer to another app > > > if I use this url with open-uri, I get the html page, not the file > > itself...... > > I'm not following you. > > If the above link is a URI representing the file (with the appropriate > content-type) then open-uri should get the file. Of course, if that URI > represents an HTML page then yes, you would get an HTML page. > > HTTP is content agnostic. It will simple GET (or POST, PUT, DELETE, > etc.) whatever the URI represents. > > OpenURI is just a wrapper around net/http, net/https & > net/ftp:http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/OpenURI.html > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
