On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:21:16 -0700, eight02645999 wrote: > thanks alot! > that's all there is to it..so it's just a simple connect. If all you want to do is check that the given port is open on the given host, that's it. I tried it on my local box. When connecting to port 25, it made the connection fine. Trying to connect to port 26 raised a socket.error.