From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-04-25T04:18:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Playing with sockets...

Hal Fulton wrote:

> I wonder: How hard is it to write a server to which one would connect
> with telnet?

To answer my own question: Frightfully easy.

     require 'socket'
     port = 8023
     server = TCPServer.new('localhost', port)
     session = server.accept
     while cmd = session.gets.chomp
       break if cmd =~ /quit/
       session.print "You said: '#{cmd}'\n"
     end
     session.print "Bye!"
     session.close


It's nice when things just work.

Hal