On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:06:20AM -0500, Nuno Job wrote: > One of problems with the bundled shoes download (and possibly upload method) > is the lack of authentication?
The `download` method takes an option called :headers where you can pass in authentication. <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/280024/using-shoes-download-to-do-basic-http-authentication> > Also I think download works as download to file not memory. You can do both. Look over the examples in the docs. Looks like I really need to write more on this topic. <http://help.shoooes.net/App.html#download> > If you try twitter client I made and connect to a local lan it will crash > because while trying to connect as the connections doesn't timeout right > away. What should I do to prevent this behavior without using threads? Report the bug! I'm serious: you don't want to use Ruby threads for this and you don't want to use Net::HTTP. If you search the web for Net::HTTP benchmarks, you'll get the picture. See, the picture is a graph where the line just keeps going up and up! _why
