From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-08-20T23:36:55+09:00
Subject: Re: socket emergency

> > Hi,
> >
> > I had a problem when using Winsock in ruby. I tried various ways, but to
> > no avail. The situation is that I need to write a simple POP3 client
> > [...]
> > same. i.e., it will hang when I use the "recv()" method. Please refer to
> > [...]
> > irb(main):007:0> t.send('USER xrfang@172.18.2.1\r\n', 0)
>
> Strange this with the telnet, this should work.
>
> I think your code didnt work because of the \r and \n literals in the
> msg exchange. So you need to use double-quotes " for the string or
> stay with .puts but without the CR LF.


I'm wondering why the net/pop.rb library isn't sufficient?