[Caml-list] What's wrong with win32?

[Christophe TROESTLER <debian00@tiscali.be>]

Hi everybody,

The following simple program works well undex Unix/Linux :
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open Printf

let header machine port file =
  let addr = (Unix.gethostbyname machine).Unix.h_addr_list.(0) in
  let (ic, oc) = Unix.open_connection (Unix.ADDR_INET(addr, port)) in
  fprintf oc "GET /%s HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n" file;
  flush oc;
  let rec read_more() =
    let s = input_line ic in
    let s = String.sub s 0 (String.length s - 1) in
    if s = "" then () else (
      printf "%s> %s\n" machine s;
      read_more()
    ) in
  read_more();
  Unix.shutdown_connection ic

let () = header "www.umh.ac.be" 80 "index.html"
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However, when I try to run it under windows 98, (and despite the fact
that it compiles fine to byte-code) I really get into trouble.  First,
the line "flush oc" raises the exception (!!!)

  Fatal error: exception Sys_error("Bad file descriptor")

Also "input_line" seems to wait forever to receive data.  I am not
familiar with win32, so maybe I missed something obvious.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
ChriS

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