From: Edgardo Hames <ehames@...>
Date: 2004-11-09T08:13:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Socket problem

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 05:23:34 +0900, Ben Armstrong <ben@bgpc.dymaxion.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:32:19 +0900, ts wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >>>>>> "B" == Ben Armstrong <ben@bgpc.dymaxion.ca> writes:
> >
> > B> We're having problems with the standard Socket module with Ruby.
> >
> >  Try to use IO#sync=
> 
> That didn't help.  Besides, sync is set to true by default.
> 
> However, I did pull out a packet sniffer and found out something very
> interesting.  It appears that for each operation, the old contents of the
> buffer is not being overwritten!  Instead, it just keeps getting appended
> to.
> 
> Thus, when I send the first line, I am sending "test\r\n".  The server
> receives this, and writes back "test\r\n\TEST\r\n".  Since my client only
> does a gets on the one line expected, it displays "test\r\n".
> 

Hi Ben. I might be completely wrong with this one, but have you tried
removing the "\r\n" at the end of the messages? Doesn't #puts add the
newline for you. I believe that could be it.

Regards,
Ed
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