From: Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@...>
Date: 2010-06-17T10:34:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Socket Problems

Doug Jolley wrote:
> I want to use a Ruby script to connect to a vendor API.  I have 2
> problems: 1)  It takes almost a minute to establish a connection; and,
> 2) after the connection is finally established, no data is returned in
> response to any requests.

IO#read will read until EOF unless you tell it how many bytes to read:

> puts("Connect:\n"+socket.read()+"\n\n")

as you did in php:

> print("Connect:\n".fread($fp,1000)."\n\n");