"Sven Eric Panitz"
It seems that the Socket library does still not work with ghc 5.02.1. I tried the simple test:
main = do d <- connectTo "localhost" (PortNumber 80) hPutStr d "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n" hFlush d c <- hGetContents d putStr c
On Windows2000 I get the known error:
*** Exception: does not exist Action: getProtocolByName Reason: no such protocol entry
(You, of course, need to wrap up that code with Socket.withSocketDo to start up WinSock first). FYI, in case you're planning on doing socket programming with GHC-5.02 on a Win32 platform, stay away from using the higher-level Socket module, since its IO.Handle based view of sockets is just broken. Stick with the lower-level SocketPrim interface instead. Specifically, stay away from using the following: * Socket. connectTo * Socket.accept * Socket.sendTo * Socket. recvFrom * SocketPrim.socketToHandle --sigbjorn