From: Rich <rich@...>
Date: 2002-07-08T02:44:47+09:00
Subject: Net::FTP hangs when connecting to a windows server...

Simple FTP connection. Linux servers work just fine. Windows seems to
block/hang.
I don't have the server logs yet - maybe on Monday.
I ran the interpreter with --debug, and FTP with debug_mode=true.

Here's all relevant output::

Start output
Exception `NameError' at server.rbw:39 - undefined method `to_ary' for
"connect|
www.mydomain.com|administrator|******\000":String
connect|www.mydomain.com|administrator|******
Exception `NameError' at server.rbw:41 - undefined method `to_ary' for
"connect"
:String
connect
Exception `NameError' at server.rbw:41 - undefined method `to_ary' for
"www.mydomain.com":String
www.mydomain.com
Exception `NameError' at server.rbw:41 - undefined method `to_ary' for
"administ
rator":String
administrator
Exception `NameError' at server.rbw:41 - undefined method `to_ary' for
"*****
*\000":String
put: USER administrator
get: 331 Password required for administrator.
put: PASS **********
End output

.. and then it hangs...

Start code
26 mainSocket = TCPserver.open('localhost', '4444')
27 addr = mainSocket.addr
28 addr.shift
29 print "server is on...\nIP:\t#{addr[2]}\nPort:\t#{addr[0]}\nComputer
Name:\t#{addr[1]}\n"
30
31 while(true)
32   $s = mainSocket.accept
33   peerName=$s.peeraddr
34   print(peerName, " is accepted\n")
35
36   while(true)
37     # Set the EOL character as a parameter of the 'gets' method... so
that we don't affect things globally
38     while $s.gets("\0")
39       puts $_
40       holder=$_.split("|")
41       holder.each { | item | puts item }
42
43       case holder[0]
44
45         when "abort"
End code

So... it doesn't even seem to be a problem with Net::FTP - but the NameError
is raised when I use a variable that hasn't been assigned a value - right?

Thanks for any help I can get!

-Rich