From: Warren Young
Date: February 28 2008 9:06pm
Subject: Re: Strange behavior of connect() when specifying a different port
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António Santos wrote:
> 
> if (!conn.connect("wgwps", "127.0.0.1", "ans", "bns", 4040))

The address may be the problem.  The C API recognizes special addresses 
like this and can interpret them oddly.  Try "localhost" instead.