From: Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@...>
Date: 2002-01-22T07:10:46+09:00
Subject: Does WEBrick work on Windows?

[Also sent directly to the developers at ipr@notwork.org, but that e-mail
was rejected]

I was going to check out WEBrick v1.1.3 on a Windows 2000 box. It seems to
work OK with the Cygwin build of Ruby distributed by the Pragmatic
Programmers. However, I'm also running a Visual C++ build of Ruby 1.6.6.
With that build, I can *start* the sample httpd server:

 C:\src\webrick-1.1.3\sample\httpd>ruby httpd.rb
 cannot load 'erb/erbl'
 [2002-01-21 15:53:57] INFO  Logging start (level=5).
 [2002-01-21 15:53:57] DEBUG TCPServer.new(0.0.0.0, 2000)
 [2002-01-21 15:53:57] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=1400 port=2000
 [2002-01-21 15:53:57] INFO  thread(0) start.
 [2002-01-21 15:53:57] INFO  thread(1) start.
 [2002-01-21 15:53:57] INFO  thread(2) start.
 [2002-01-21 15:53:57] INFO  thread(3) start.
 [2002-01-21 15:53:57] INFO  thread(4) start.

but when I try to contact the server via my web browser
(http://localhost:2000) I get no response (i.e. the browser eventually times
out waiting for a response).

Has anyone had success running this under a Visual C++ build of Ruby?