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

Thanks for the reply. That was a good tip about "soft" failures, but that didn't solve my problem. I've rewritten the original post to try to be clearer, as well as getting rid of the evals.


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