Summary: It's a known problem with perl on Windows NT. http://bugs.activestate.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14518 http://bugs.activestate.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14560 ... which is why IO::Socket::INET with a Timeout parameter also doesn't work. It implements the socket timeout as a non-blocking connect and select loop internally. I could have SocketFactory perform blocking connect() calls on Windows NT. Would that be an acceptable work-around? -- Rocco Caputo / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / poe.perl.org / poe.sourceforge.net
