Using open-uri or net/http to download a file from web?

[wikii]

Hi all!
Can I use open-uri or net/http to download a file from web in SU?

[Jim]

Re-posting the lost post...

One possibility is to use the built-in SKSocket class in SketchUp. The following snippet might be useful:

def listener(s)
  $str << s
  if s == "Connection established"
    SKSocket.write "GET /RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/weld.rb HTTP/1.0\r\n\n"
  end
  if s == "Connection closed"
    puts "Done"
    # Do something useful with the data
  end
end

$str = []
if Sketchup.is_online
  SKSocket.connect "www.crai.archi.fr", 80
  SKSocket.add_socket_listener {|e| listener(e)}
end

[maoltuile]

Could this be used to enforce/update a corporate SketchUp standard installation, I wonder?