From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-12-19T12:43:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Socket problem

Hi,

At Thu, 19 Dec 2002 11:53:24 +0900,
Child wrote:
> I'm trying to write a NNTP client and I encountered some problems with
> sockets. I have to read server response from socket. The response is
> multiline and ends with ".\r\n". Is there any way to get whole response
> at once? At the moment I use gets and read the response line by line,
> which is horribly inefficient. In C program I used ioctl FIONREAD call
> to read number of available bytes and then fetched them with read, but
> can't get this call working in ruby - always get "Bad address
> (Errno::EFAULT" error. And if I use recv with arbitrary number (eg.
> 10000) it hangs forever.

socket.gets("\r\n.\r\n")

-- 
Nobu Nakada