Re: Need help with "Error: can't connect"

[Baruch Even]

* Promo Guy <address@hidden> [031121 08:29]:
>    The script executes, but it can never get to the web page. This is in my
>    emails:
> 
>    500 Can't connect to www.wired.com:80 (Bad protocol 'tcp')

The page at: 
http://www-level3.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Perl/Q_20794535.html

Says it's a problem with the getprotobyname call that Perl uses, for
some reason Windows will fail to return a proper response and then
everything will fail with that error message.

That page also suggests to reinstall the TCP/IP stack on windows, see
that page for instructions, I have no experience with Windows.

The following page is also about the problem:
http://forums.devshed.com/t93933/s20810c8680ace395c8dcd5dc2d0faf08.html
And it says to follow instructions on this page to reinstall TCP/IP:
http://www.petri.co.il/reinstall_tcp_ip_xp.htm

Hope this helps, Maybe someone else on this list with experience with
Windows can help you more.

Baruch