From: Kamaljeet Saini Date: 2009-01-23T07:43:00+09:00 Subject: How to receive data using socket programming Hi, I have this following code that able to make connection and then disconnect. But after doing connection, i wish to receive data before doing disconnect. Im very new to understand socket programming will be great to get some help here. require 'socket' streamSock = Socket::new(Socket::AF_INET, Socket::SOCK_STREAM, 0) myaddr = [Socket::AF_INET, 5555, 113, 129, 2, 162, 0, 0].pack("snCCCCNN") print "connecting...\n" streamSock.connect( myaddr ) print "connected\n" # How to read/receive data ( sample code example will help ) print "disconnecting...\n" streamSock.close print "disconnected\n" -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.