From: Pierre Barbier de Reuille <pierre.barbier@...>
Date: 2005-09-12T21:26:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with sockets

Robert Klemme a �crit :
> Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote:
> 
>>Hello there !
>>
>>I was trying to code a scriptable MUD client (following the RubyQuiz
>>challenge). For the moment, I implemented a scriptable telnet which
>>works fine with my mail server and also with the test server provided
>>by James Edward Gray II on the RubyQuiz website. However, when I
>>tried it
>>on a real MUD server, it just stopped receiving data after a few lines
>>(I tested it on imperian.com:23). The connection is not lost however,
>>as
>>I can send commands (simple: if you can send "3", it will exit your
>>session :) ).
>>
>>I join my code here, all the connection stuff are in the two methods
>>"connect" and "idle" of the MUD class.
> 
> 
> The first changes I'd do are to use the block form of File.open, use
> synchronized IO during testing and print out any exceptions you catch in
> #idle.  At the moment the script silently terminates if there is an
> exception with socket io and you never learn what went wrong (timeout for
> example).
> 
> Regards
> 
>     robert
> 

Well, thanks a lot, I found the error :) And, of course it was not were
I thought it was, and it was hidden by this bad exception handling ;)

Pierre