down

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Quick description about down:

Down is a Ruby utility gem that provides a safer, streaming HTTP download interface for remote files. Instead of simply loading remote files into memory, it offers tools to stream downloads to disk or tempfiles, to limit size, to secure against malicious inputs, and flexibility in which HTTP backend to use (e.g. Net: : HTTP, http.rb, HTTPX). It is suitable for situations where you need to fetch remote files in Ruby in a robust manner.

Features:

• Streaming download of remote files to disk or tempfiles, avoiding loading entire file into memory unnecessarily
• Ability to specify maximum file size to protect against huge or malicious downloads (via content-length or early aborts)
• Choice of HTTP backends: Net: : HTTP (standard library), http.rb, HTTPX etc.
• Ability to set destination path rather than always using a tempfile, override file extension, prefix names etc.
• Metadata extraction: content type, original filename, charset etc from the HTTP response headers
• Support for streaming open (reading while downloading) as well as complete file download, with options for timeouts etc.

Programming Language: Ruby.
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