From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-01-31T15:30:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP Closes STDIN

On Jan 30, 2007, at 19:08, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2007, at 5:28 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>> this could get tricky to debug!
>
> Bingo.  It's actually a pretty significant problem for HighLine  
> because after you do something like fetching a web page, HighLine  
> believes $stdin to e closed and won't allow you to ask the user any  
> more questions.  I fear we will need to disable HighLine's eof?()  
> check the work around this.

Then it sounds like HighLine needs to check #closed? or continue  
reading until IOError.  If #eof? returns true you've read everything  
you could up to now.  Nothing prevents more data from appearing on  
the socket after you've checked for #eof?.