Hello all,

I'm having some real big problems using Net::SOCKS. I'm looking at the code, and it says it has all these status_num that you can check to see what was going on with the connection, i.e., the socks server is down, the port your connecting to on the target machine is closed, etc.

What the problem is, is that it seems like the only one of these that ever gets returned is SOCKS_OK, which should say that the connection to the target machine (not just the socks server) was accepted. SO the problem is, how can I tell whether the Socks server I'm connecting thru is down, or if the port on the target machine I'm trying to connect to is closed?

Please someone, I beg of you on this! I need this for a research project I'm doing and I'm going to have to scrap all of my perl code and try to do it in java if I can't figure that out. And you all know how much I want to do that! :(

Thanks!

In reply to What is wrong with Net::SOCKS or me? by SyN/AcK

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