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  r83703 | giampaolo.rodola | 2010-08-04 10:35:25 +0200 (mer, 04 ago 2010) | 1 line

  fix issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly (patch by Alexander Shigin)
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Lib/asyncore.py

@@ -422,8 +422,11 @@ class dispatcher:
             self.handle_read()
 
     def handle_connect_event(self):
-        self.connected = True
+        err = self.socket.getsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_ERROR)
+        if err != 0:
+            raise socket.error(err, _strerror(err))
         self.handle_connect()
+        self.connected = True
 
     def handle_write_event(self):
         if self.accepting:

Misc/ACKS

@@ -817,3 +817,4 @@ Tarek Ziad
 Peter strand
 Jesse Noller
 Fredrik Hrd
+Alexander Shigin

Misc/NEWS

@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ C-API
 Library
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+- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
+
 - Issue #8447: Make distutils.sysconfig follow symlinks in the path to
   the interpreter executable.  This fixes a failure of test_httpservers
   on OS X.