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"Stormy" <s70rmy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have a small problem with client socket. If I set its Host property
> to an unknown host and activate it (either by Open() method or by
> setting it's Active property to true), application throws an exception
> which is handled inside my handler:

You should be using the TClientSocket's OnError event to handle socket
errors.

> Now, the problem is when I now set socket's Host property to existing,
> running host, and open the connection, instead of connecting it throws
> an error via OnError event. Error is, of course, related to prior
connection
> failure to unknown host. OnError event simply does not occur after
> exception being thrown. Exception message is: "Windows socket error: No
> such host is known (11001), on API 'ASync Lookup'" and ErrorCode inside
> OnError event is #10049.

Please show your actual code to reproduce that.  You should not be getting
any error involving the previous Host.

> Is there any way of resetting ErrorCode inside exception handler, and if
so,
> would it prevent socket from triggering an OnError event? My current
solution
> involves setting socket's Active property back to true inside exception
handler
> what causes OnError event to occur for given unknown host connection (I
> moved error logging inside OnError event), but this just doesn't seem to
be
> the right way to solve this problem.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?


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