fsockopen 10053 error when writing Chars to Java socket

Question

Right,

I\'m trying to write a wee script in PHP that will send an in game chat package to Minecraft.

//Deliberately low timeout
$mc = fsockopen(\"localho         


        

Answer 1

10053 is the winsock error code for WSAECONNABORTED.
An "understandable" explaination of that error condition can be found at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/p/p_299.asp