[squeak-dev] Re: Winds of change

Göran Krampe goran at krampe.se
Sun Feb 8 16:16:34 UTC 2009


Daniel Klein wrote:
> I've been struggling for 2 days trying to get a TCP client socket dialog
> with a telnet server. In VisualWorks, I would do something like: 
[SNIP]

SocketStream is what you want, as you noticed too.

> I do notice the SocketStream has a HTTP example, but I don't think
> SocketStream is for TCP (I could be wrong, but there is no documentation
> either way).

It is definitely for TCP. I think the class comment says so.

[SNIP]
> Is this even possible in Squeak? Or do I have to load something else into
> the image?

No, just use SocketStream, easy. I wrote the current SocketStream code 
so just ask. And also, it is heavily used in KomHttpServer etc so this 
is code that works.

regards, Göran





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