From: Chananya Freiman <thebluedragont@...>
Date: 2010-12-08T07:36:19+09:00
Subject: Re: HTTP POST request --> Ruby server

Jeremy Bopp wrote in post #967039:
> On 12/7/2010 2:48 PM, Chananya Freiman wrote:
>>
>> str = ""
>> (1..560).each { |a| str += peer.readchar }
>> print str
>
> peer.readchar is blocking because there is no further data available but
> the stream is still open.
>
> Are you certain that your two examples both accurately reflect the code
> you're actually using?  In both cases you are creating an inclusive
> range over which to iterate, and both ranges go from 1 to 560.  As a
> result, your loops will run 560 times, so if your data is only 559 bytes
> long, you will run peer.readchar one more time than you have bytes
> available.  In that case, both loops should block at the peer.readchar
> call in the 560th iteration.
>
> -Jeremy

Yes that's what should happen, but the first one didn't block for some 
reason.

Anyway, the problem is solved now.

I did try using readbytes(length) where length is the Content-Length 
value, but it blocks wheres

(length.to_i).times do
    data += peer.readchar
end

doesn't.

But, as long as I get the POST data, I am happy.

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