From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-02-02T01:01:53+09:00
Subject: Re: IO and non-strings

Mark Volkmann wrote:
...
> require 'socket'
> 
> # Create socket.
> host, port = 'localhost', 1919
> socket = TCPSocket.new(host, port)
> 
> # Send request message.
> binary_string = [19, 10, 8].pack('N*')
> socket.puts binary_string

You want to avoid using gets/puts with binary strings. Those functions
are for text, and will detect/insert line ends. In fact, 10 is the same
as a \n character, so that's probably where it's choking.

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