From: Caleb Tennis <caleb@...>
Date: 2005-12-21T03:40:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Difficulty opening a socket

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 12:35, ra88it ra88it wrote:

> When I do this:
>
> sock = TCPSocket.new('localhost', 8080)
>
> I get the the "connection refused" error: Errno::ECONNREFUSED

Is there something listening on port 8080 on your local machine.  Sockets are 
a two way beast - there has to be something at the other end willing to 
accept your connection.

Caleb