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Ruby equivalent of a simple Wget (See related posts)

Reads the file contents from a URL. I used this code to work around the problem with the Ruby RSS reader which couldn't read the RSS file from digg.com. The reason being that the website would not allow files to be downloaded without supplying the User-Agent string.

require 'open-uri'
puts open('http://digg.com/rss/index.xml',
     'User-Agent' => 'Ruby-Wget').read
to ruby wget http open-uri by jrobertson on Mon Oct 15 07:20:43 -0400 2007

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