wysota,

I just tried the entire offending project code, execpt I edited the host and port values in connectToHost() to point to google.com port 80 and connected with perfect handshake 5 times in a row. There is no way the server I've been connecting to would do that. No conclusions here just fyi....... Tomorrow I'm going to try the simplified code with the server in question when it comes back on line and see what that does.....