Extra CR chars inserted into a downloaded file

Ruby
1

Hello all,
Could anyone help shed light on some pesky (extra) Carrige Rreturns
'\r’s

I’m in a windows environment, and I’m seeing extra chars in a download
vs. direct file access.
normally I would not care but later I will be checking MD5’s on both
sides and they will not match.

Ruby file downloadFile.rb

require ‘open-uri’

open(“http://localhost/test/test.txt”) {|f|
f.each_line {|line| p line}
p f.content_type
p f.charset + ‘\n’

}

File.open(“C:/www/test/test.txt”, “r”) {|f|
f.each_line {|line| p line}
}

EOF

→

ruby downloadFile.rb
“abcdefg\r\n”
“abcdefg\r\n”
“abcdefg\r\n”
“text/plain”
“iso-8859-1”

“abcdefg\n”
“abcdefg\n”
“abcdefg\n”

Exit code: 0

thanks,
Nate Morse

2

On May 26, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Nate Morse wrote:

require ‘open-uri’
}
“iso-8859-1”

“abcdefg\n”
“abcdefg\n”
“abcdefg\n”

Exit code: 0

thanks,
Nate Morse

I would blame the webserver before ruby… Try to make the webserver
consider .txt to be binary data, and see what happens.
-Mat

3

Hi Mat et.al.
Trying various Apache config settings such as:
# tried others such as application/x-gzip and
application/octet-stream …
AddType application/x-other .txt

yeilds:
p f.content_type --> ‘application/x-other’
p f.charset --> nil

but the extra \r’s are still appearing “abcdefg\r\n”,
also I downloaded the same file using FireFox with no extra chars
hmmm… do I dive into the source of Net::HTTP, or is the jury still
out on Apache
–Nate

4

On May 26, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Nate Morse wrote:

open(“http://localhost/test/test.txt”) {|f|
f.each_line {|line| p line}
p f.content_type
p f.charset + ‘\n’

}

Have we tried:

open(“http://localhost/test/test.txt”, ‘rb’) { |f|
…etc…
}

5

I’d do one last thing. I seem to remember something about \r\n being
the line separator for the HTTP standard (in the RFC). If you could
hack together something that accesses apache without Net::HTTP, I’d
try that. If it works, then the problem lies in Net:::HTTP.
Good luck,
Mat