From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-03-03T02:26:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11909] Re: TCPSocket

On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Alex McHale wrote:

> Hi there,
>   I'm working on the networking core for a client/server, and am just working on 
> familiarizing myself with the Ruby classes for this.  I have a very basic client 
> that would hopefully connect to a server and just display what it receives.  But it 
> just doesn't work without me sending information.  Like this:
> 
> require 'socket'
> s = TCPSocket.open( 'localhost', 80 )
> while TRUE
>   print s.gets
> end
> 
> I know it isn't quite proper with the endless loop, but it is only there for testing 
> purposes.  But it just doesn't work.  This, however, works, assuming I hit enter 
> each time I want a line, instead of just displaying everything it receives:
> 
> require 'socket'
> s = TCPSocket.open( 'localhost', 80 )
> while gets
>   s.write $_
>   print s.gets
> end
> s.close

Try sending only one line to the server:

  require 'socket'
  s = TCPSocket.open( 'localhost', 80 )
  s.puts "nonsense"   # or something real, if you prefer
  print s.read


David

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