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Good question, unfortunately this is not a simple HTTP server. It's an
industry standard client/server communication called RETS. Real Estate
Transaction Standard. It requires a third party library in order to
interface with the server. I wish it were that simple!!

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:16 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net>
wrote:

> Joey Marino wrote:
> > I found out it is not the 3rd party code. I am downloading images
> (~320,000
> > ct.) as strings, and saving each to a file.
>
> Why? If the images come from the Internet and go to disk, why do you
> need to read them into Ruby working storage? Can't you just shell out to
> "wget" or "curl"?
>
>
>


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Joey Marino