From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-10-19T00:12:10+09:00
Subject: Re: How do you break out of a server.accept loop?

Ralph Smith wrote:
> This works, but I don't know how to get out of the loop. I'm running
> this on windows xp. I tried control-c, but it doesn't work. How can I
> get out of a loop like this?

You can for example write an event handler that throws an exception in the
accepting thread.

> require 'socket'
>
> server = TCPServer.new('127.0.0.1', 8080)
>
> while (session = server.accept)
>    session.puts session.gets
>    session.close
> end

Kind regards

    robert