From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-07-06T08:49:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Establishing new TCP Socket connection

On 05 Jul 2005, at 14:03, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> If I want to establish a new TCP connection every time I need to
> access data (the server doesn't want to keep old connetions around),
> is there any reason why I can't do something like:
>
> def send_message_and_recv_response
>   server = TCPSocket.new @server_ip, @server_port
>   server.puts "the message"
>   result = server.recv
> end

You could be more friendly to the other end by adding an explicit close:

def do_the_stuff
   sock = TCPSocket.new @ip, @port
   sock.puts "message"
   return sock.recv
ensure
   sock.close unless sock.nil?
end

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