connection refused

[Peter Hansen]

daye wrote:
> 
> The sever is up and running.  BTW, it's localhost.
> 
> "Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message
> news:3E79C5B8.922197EF at engcorp.com...
> > Have you manually verified that the server is actually available,
> > and listening on the correct port?  Use "telnet host port" to
> > do that before blaming your code.

Are you aware that a server listening on 127.0.0.1 (localhost)
will only respond to connections *to* localhost?  Perhaps your
client software is attempting to connect to your machine by
name or external IP address, in which case the server won't answer.