[squeak-dev] Re: Webclient + localhost error

Fri Oct 29 19:25:18 UTC 2010

On 2010/10/29 21:04, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:
>
> Duh, I kept thinking that and forgot...
>
> I tried a few different examples:
>    1. Starting with the one from the pickaxe book:
> 	server = TCPServer.new('localhost', 8091)
> 	while (session = server.accept)
> 		puts "Request: #{session.gets}"
> 		session.print "HTTP/1.1 200/OK\r\nContent-type: text/html\r\n\r\n"
> 		session.print "<html><body><h1>#{Time.now}</h1></body></html>\r\n"
> 		session.close
> 	end
>
>    2. server = TCPServer.open(2002)  # Socket to listen on port 2000
>      	loop {                         # Servers run forever
>      	    	client = server.accept       # Wait for a client to connect
>      	    	client.puts(Time.now.ctime)  # Send the time to the client
>      	    	client.puts "Closing the connection. Bye!"
>      		client.close                 # Disconnect from the client
>      	}
>
>    3. server = TCPServer.new('localhost', 8091)
> 	while (true)
> 	  begin
> 	      sock = server.accept_nonblock
> 	  rescue Errno::EAGAIN, Errno::ECONNABORTED, Errno::EPROTO, Errno::EINTR
> 	      IO.select([server])
> 	      retry
> 	  end
> 	  sock.print "sdflkdsjfslkdj"
> 	  sock.close
> 	end
>
> All three work in Safari and fail in WebClient.

I'll put my neck on the block and boldly claim that if you change 
'localhost' to '127.0.0.1' WebClient will work.

frank