From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-11-18T12:10:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Does SOCKSSocket work?

Hi,

In message "Re: Does SOCKSSocket work?"
    on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:15:04 +0900, "Alan Johnson" <alan.wayne.johnson@gmail.com> writes:

|I am having trouble with class SOCKSSocket.  I am trying to get the
|following minimal example to work:
|require 'socket'
|s = SOCKSSocket.new('www.google.com', 80)
|
|Running this I get:
|$ ruby example.rb
|example.rb:2: uninitialized constant SOCKSSocket (NameError)
|
|First, I assume that SOCKS support must be compiled into ruby, but I cannot
|determine which set of compile flags enables it. Second, looking at the ruby
|source code, it appears that the only SOCKSSocket methods that are even
|defined are initialize and close, which makes me wonder how it could
|possibly work.

First, you have to specify --enable-socks=true to configure (or
extconf.rb run) with libsocks installed.

Second, that's OK, SOCKSSocket inherits everything else from
TCPSocket.  I myself have not tested SOCKSSocket for a while,
but I assume it still works.

							matz.