"Rich" <rich / lithinos.com> wrote in message news:001101c2d52e$392c9470$0200a8c0 / stone... > The related webpage: http://www.lithinos.com/gui.html Nice :-) I would be nice if you could have a flash application running on your webserver to which you connect from a browser with flash plugin. main.rb shuts down immediately - mainBrowser.rb works fine - using Ruby 1.7.3 PragProg installer. What about commecial applications? You can't ship a flash player, but you might depend on users having flash plugin in web-browsers. What about firewalls. You create an arbitrary socket - this might not work out of the box without making it look like a web-server somehow...? Mikkel