From: "Günter Glück" Date: 2004-10-30T12:18:42+09:00 Subject: TCPSocket question hi i'm trying to use TCPSocket the first time and had a problem with it. require "socket" t = TCPSocket.new('rubyforge.org', 2401) t.puts "BEGIN VERIFICATION REQUEST\012" p t.gets t.close as the process blocks without printing some response i'm wondering what i'm doing wrong here? ping is ok. also manual telnet connection with this request gives a response from the server. best regards G�nter Gl�ck (ggl)