From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-10-21T06:58:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5722] Re: Help: sockets broken

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5715] Help: sockets broken"
    on 00/10/21, jason petrone <jp@NOSPAMdemonseed.net> writes:

|Is there something wrong with my build?  Or is my code bad, and the ruby build
|on my linux machine more forgiving?

try:

  ruby -r socket -e 'TCPSocket::new("127.0.0.1", "80")

on you openbsd machine.  Probably it fails.  I think the reason is
getaddrinfo(3) on openbsd does not understand service names
represented by numeric strings.  Then, your workaround should be

  require 'net/http'
  page = Net::HTTP.new('127.0.0.1', 'http')
  page.start()

Maybe, in net/http.rb, we should change like the following:

-    protocol_param :port,         '80'
+    protocol_param :port,         80

-- 
							matz.