# Establishing new TCP Socket connection
**URL:** https://rubytalk.org/t/establishing-new-tcp-socket-connection/19359
**Category:** ruby-talk
**Created:** [5 July 2005 21:03 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/establishing-new-tcp-socket-connection/19359 "2005-07-05T21:03:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@J-Van](https://rubytalk.org/u/J-Van)
#### Post date: [5 July 2005 21:03 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/establishing-new-tcp-socket-connection/19359/1 "2005-07-05T21:03:11Z")
Hi,
If I want to establish a new TCP connection every time I need to
access data (the server doesn't want to keep old connetions around),
is there any reason why I can't do something like:
def send\_message\_and\_recv\_response
server = TCPSocket.new @server\_ip, @server\_port
server.puts "the message"
result = server.recv
end
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### Author:  [@J-Van](https://rubytalk.org/u/J-Van)
#### Post date: [5 July 2005 23:39 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/establishing-new-tcp-socket-connection/19359/2 "2005-07-05T23:39:55Z")
No response needed on this... it all seems to work ok.
> **···**
>
> On 7/5/05, Joe Van Dyk \ wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > If I want to establish a new TCP connection every time I need to
> > access data (the server doesn't want to keep old connetions around),
> > is there any reason why I can't do something like:
> >
> > def send\_message\_and\_recv\_response
> > server = TCPSocket.new @server\_ip, @server\_port
> > server.puts "the message"
> > result = server.recv
> > end
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### Author:  [@Eric\_Hodel1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Eric_Hodel1)
#### Post date: [5 July 2005 23:49 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/establishing-new-tcp-socket-connection/19359/3 "2005-07-05T23:49:07Z")
You could be more friendly to the other end by adding an explicit close:
def do\_the\_stuff
sock = TCPSocket.new @ip, @port
sock.puts "message"
return sock.recv
ensure
sock.close unless sock.nil?
end
> **···**
>
> On 05 Jul 2005, at 14:03, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
>
> > If I want to establish a new TCP connection every time I need to
> > access data (the server doesn't want to keep old connetions around),
> > is there any reason why I can't do something like:
> >
> > def send\_message\_and\_recv\_response
> > server = TCPSocket.new @server\_ip, @server\_port
> > server.puts "the message"
> > result = server.recv
> > end
>
> --
> Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - [http://segment7.net](http://segment7.net)
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### Author:  [@Adam\_P\_Jenkins1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Adam_P_Jenkins1)
#### Post date: [6 July 2005 00:10 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/establishing-new-tcp-socket-connection/19359/4 "2005-07-06T00:10:46Z")
Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I want to establish a new TCP connection every time I need to
> access data (the server doesn't want to keep old connetions around),
> is there any reason why I can't do something like:
>
> def send\_message\_and\_recv\_response
> server = TCPSocket.new @server\_ip, @server\_port
> server.puts "the message"
> result = server.recv
> end
Sure, except you should explicitly close the connection as well at the end of your block rather than letting the socket object's finalizer do it whenever the GC gets around to calling it. So, something like:
def send\_message\_and\_recv\_response
server = nil
server = TCPSocket.new @server\_ip, @server\_port
server.puts "the message"
result = server.recv
ensure
server.close if server
end