On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 08:43:02AM -0700, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote: > > This happens because Windows is missing an entry for "http" in the > winnt/system32/drivers/etc/services database. It works if you > add a line like the following in that file: > > www 80/tcp http > > It apparently worked in previous versions because IO::Socket used > to ignore failures in looking up the service name when the port was > also specified, but doesn't anymore. Why not? I could understand it warning if the port numbers differ but I see no value in warning if the name can't be looked up but a number has been supplied. Tim.Thread Previous | Thread Next