From: lite_cheng@...
Date: 2001-01-12T00:40:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9140] Re: Problems with HTTP.open, TCPServer.open, etc.



Never mind - works now... recompiled 1.6.2
via mswin32 and Visual C++.  nmake test
did fail on SIGINT, but otherwise things
look good.

In article <93ine8$l0j$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  lite_cheng@my-deja.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just starting out with Ruby, and trying
> the examples on the 'Programming Ruby' book.
> I'm running ruby from the self-installer from
> rubycentral.com website (1.6.1) on a Win98
> machine behind a firewall.
>
> Network commands like Net::HTTP.open,
> TCPServer.open, TCPSocket.open, etc are
> giving the following error message:
>
> Errno:ENOTSOCK: The descriptor is a file, not a
> socket - "connect(2)"
>
> e.g. these would fail
>   Net::HTTP.start('www.ibm.com',80)
>   Net::TCPSocket.new('localhost','echo')
>
> I am able to resolve addresses properly
> (IPSocket.getaddress works), but any session-like
> command is bombing.  If this is a firewall
> related problem, do I need to specify a
> proxy server somewhere (how)?  Other network
> stuff like Netscape, IE, Rebol, etc run
> fine - although they do require me to
> specify the proxy.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Li-Te
>
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