i have explored into many of the sample code on socket.
none of it demostrate a true server solution.
i am trying to write a http server, which will be listening on port 80 for
many simulteneos sessions.

i have explored into many of the sample code on socket.
none of it demonstrate a true server solution.
i am trying to write a http server, which will be listening on port 80 for
many simultaneous sessions.

rb has strong support in socket, but it seems to listen only once on single
port. once a client has established a connection with it, the port will not
be available for other until the first connection is closed and
re-establish.
un-fortunately, in http server environment, i need to handle multiple
connections on single port number (which is 80).

anyone has done this before??

Yes. Don't bother.  It sucked rocks and I had experience in writing HTTP
servers before (I wrote one that runs on the Newton Messagepad that was
featured in WiReD magazine and have worked on one in Java, as well).

I ended up recasting the functions I needed into a CGI that I called from
MacOS Personal Websharing (or any other WebSTAR compatible server) after
trying and trying to avoid all the crashes and instabilities.

Don't re-invent this wheel, my friend...
--
Matthew Vaughn

REALbasic currently supports listening for one connection at a time.
However, James Milne is developing a server socket control as a plug-in for
REALbasic. You can contact him at http://www.essencesw.com/.

--

Geoff Perlman
REAL Software, Inc.
http://www.realsoftware.com