Question

I want to write a simple server socket in Ruby, which, when a client connects to it, prints a message and closes the client connection. I came up with:

require 'socket'

server = TCPServer.open('localhost',8800) 

loop {            
    client = server.accept
    Thread.start do
      s = client
      s.puts "Closing the connection. Bye!"
      s.close
    end         
}

However, when I access “localhost:8800” in my browser, I am not getting that message, instead, it says page not found.. What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

It is quite likely that your browser is expecting something on the remote end that talks Http.

This is dependant upon your browser and also the exact URI you typed in. It is also possible that your browser is connecting getting the connection close and then displaying an error page.

If you want to see the server working then use telnet from a command prompt. So in one window type ruby ./myfilename.rb and then in another type telnet localhost 8800