Hi Monks,

I can connect to a remote host using 

my $SSH2 = Net::SSH2->new();
$ssh2->connect("server.com") or die;

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However, if an invalid server name is given, I get error message:

Net::SSH2::connect: failed to connect to blah:22: Invalid argument at test.pl line 10.

and the program dies.

I need to be able to test if the connection can be made, and then if it can't, I will handle it separately with a wxDialog. I saw people saying you should code a connect like this: 

if ($ssh2->connect("server.com")) { ... }

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But this produces exactly the same error if the remote host doesn't exist! I'm testing it on strawberry perl in Windows 2000.

Any suggestions would help!
James

In reply to Net::SSH2 test connection to remote host by james_

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