in reply to Re^3: IO::Socket *always* making connection?
in thread IO::Socket *always* making connection?

The problem comes not when there is nothing there (i.e. 9805/9806), but when there *is* something there, but it's busy. My program fails to retrieve any data, and also fails to say "sorry, couldn't connect, he's busy".


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