A socket exception

[MyCatAlex]

Two things, I could not find a more appropriate deck for this question and secondly, the code I am about to post is a Microsoft code 100% but I don't remember where I got it. It gives me a "conceptual" exception

public class Sample
{
public string DoSocketGet(string server)
{
//Set up variables and String to write to the server.
Encoding ASCII = Encoding.ASCII;
string Get = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: " + server + "\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n";
Byte[] ByteGet = ASCII.GetBytes(Get);
Byte[] RecvBytes = new Byte[256];
String strRetPage = null;
// IPAddress and IPEndPoint represent the endpoint that will
// receive the request.
// Get first IPAddress in list return by DNS.
try
{
// Define those variables to be evaluated in the next for loop and
// then used to connect to the server. These variables are defined
// outside the for loop to make them accessible there after.
Socket s = null;
IPEndPoint hostEndPoint;
IPAddress hostAddress = null;
int conPort = 80;
// Get DNS host information.
IPHostEntry hostInfo = Dns.GetHostEntry(server);
// Get the DNS IP addresses associated with the host.
IPAddress[] IPaddresses = hostInfo.AddressList;
// Evaluate the socket and receiving host IPAddress and IPEndPoint.
for (int index = 0; index < IPaddresses.Length; index++)
{
hostAddress = IPaddresses[index];
hostEndPoint = new IPEndPoint(hostAddress, conPort);
// Creates the Socket to send data over a TCP connection.
s = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
// Connect to the host using its IPEndPoint.
s.Connect(hostEndPoint); <== Exception line
if (!s.Connected)
{
// Connection failed, try next IPaddress.
strRetPage = "Unable to connect to host";
s = null;
continue;
}
// Sent the GET request to the host.
s.Send(ByteGet, ByteGet.Length, 0);
} // End of the for loop.
// Receive the host home page content and loop until all the data is received.
Int32 bytes = s.Receive(RecvBytes, RecvBytes.Length, 0);
strRetPage = "Default HTML page on " + server + ":\r\n";
strRetPage = strRetPage + ASCII.GetString(RecvBytes, 0, bytes);
while (bytes > 0)
{
bytes = s.Receive(RecvBytes, RecvBytes.Length, 0);
strRetPage = strRetPage + ASCII.GetString(RecvBytes, 0, bytes);
}
} // End of the try block.
catch (SocketException e)
{
Console.WriteLine("SocketException caught!!!");
Console.WriteLine("Source : " + e.Source);
Console.WriteLine("Message : " + e.Message);
}
catch (ArgumentNullException e)
{
Console.WriteLine("ArgumentNullException caught!!!");
Console.WriteLine("Source : " + e.Source);
Console.WriteLine("Message : " + e.Message);
}
catch (NullReferenceException e)
{
Console.WriteLine("NullReferenceException caught!!!");
Console.WriteLine("Source : " + e.Source);
Console.WriteLine("Message : " + e.Message);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("Exception caught!!!");
Console.WriteLine("Source : " + e.Source);
Console.WriteLine("Message : " + e.Message);
}
return strRetPage;
} // DoSocketGet
} // class Sample


The exception message: Message : An address incompatible with the requested protocol was used [fe80::b5f9:7853:ff06:9563%9]:80

Asking for help:

-MyCatAlex

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