From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2005-07-07T05:27:35+09:00
Subject: Re: UDPSocket question

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 05:21 +0900, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> What would be great if someone could fill in the blanks for me, or
> point me to somewhere that does:

Untested:

> if fork 
>   # UDP Server
>   server = UDPSocket.open
>   server.bind 'localhost', 12345
>   while (message, sender = server.recvfrom(64))
>     puts "We received: <#{message}> from #{sender[2]}"
>     
>     return_message = "Hi there client!"
>     # Send response message here
      server.send(return_message, 0, sender[2], sender[1])
>   end
> else
>   
>   # UDP Client
>   client = UDPSocket.open
>   client.connect 'localhost', 12345
>   client.puts "Hello Server!"
>   # assert that we got "Hi there client!" back
> end

See UDPSocket#send in the Pickax.

Guillaume.

> On 7/6/05, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm having problems creating a UDP socket that listens for messages on
> > a port and (sometimes) sends messages back to the original sender of
> > the message.
> > 
> > I can receive a message over the UDP socket fine, I'm just not sure
> > about how to know where to send the message back, and how to properly
> > send it back.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Joe
> >
>