Ruby - remote file download ...timeout? - ruby

Question

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:password#api.net'
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

Answer 1

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