Mega Code Archive
Performing Random Access on Read-Once Input Streams
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require 'socket'
require 'stringio'
sock = TCPSocket.open("www.example.com", 80)
sock.write("GET /\n")
file = StringIO.new(sock.read)
file.read(10) # => "<HTML>\r\n<H"
file.rewind
file.read(10) # => "<HTML>\r\n<H"
file.pos = 90
file.read(15) # => " this web page "
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