From: "James F. Hranicky" <jfh@...>
Date: 2004-10-22T00:26:47+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket.new(host, port).readline hangs on Windows

On Wednesday 20 October 2004 02:48, James Britt wrote:

> c:\> ruby -rsocket -e 'p TCPSocket.new("james3480", 110 ).readline'
> "+OK SAproxy ready, send USER name:host[:port]\r\n"
>
>
> Trying port 80, with a web server running, hangs.
>
> James

Doesn't the web server require you ask for a URL? This works for me:

  ruby -rsocket -e 'TCPSocket.open("www.cise.ufl.edu", 80) { |s| 
    s.puts "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n"; 
    while str = s.gets do puts str end 
  }'

Jim