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Burgestrand / download-progress.rb
Created June 27, 2010 13:55
Ruby HTTP file download with progress measurement
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
def download(url)
Thread.new do
thread = Thread.current
body = thread[:body] = []
url = URI.parse url
Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port).request_get(url.path) do |response|