TCPSocket

TCPSocket represents a TCP/IP client socket.

A simple client may look like:

require 'socket'
s = TCPSocket.new 'localhost', 2000
while line = s.gets # Read lines from socket
 puts line # and print them
end
s.close # close socket when done

Public Class Methods

gethostbyname(hostname) => [official_hostname, alias_hostnames, address_family, *address_list] click to toggle source

Lookups host information by hostname.

TCPSocket.gethostbyname("localhost")
#=> ["localhost", ["hal"], 2, "127.0.0.1"]

 
 static VALUE
tcp_s_gethostbyname(VALUE obj, VALUE host)
{
 rb_secure(3);
 return rsock_make_hostent(host, rsock_addrinfo(host, Qnil, SOCK_STREAM, AI_CANONNAME),
 tcp_sockaddr);
}

new(remote_host, remote_port, local_host=nil, local_port=nil) click to toggle source

Opens a TCP connection to remote_host on remote_port. If local_host and local_port are specified, then those parameters are used on the local end to establish the connection.

 
 static VALUE
tcp_init(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE sock)
{
 VALUE remote_host, remote_serv;
 VALUE local_host, local_serv;
 rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "22", &remote_host, &remote_serv,
 &local_host, &local_serv);
 return rsock_init_inetsock(sock, remote_host, remote_serv,
 local_host, local_serv, INET_CLIENT);
}