From: Lou Vanek <vanek@...>
Date: 2005-12-21T04:42:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Difficulty opening a socket

   telnet localhost 8080

this should indicate what's listening, if anything.


Caleb Tennis wrote:

> 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