Problems creating socket

[MaverickAlex]

I am trying to connect to FG via socket for an ACARS system

i'm using

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--generic,socket,out,5,127.0.0.1,5501,tcp,acars

basic protocol borrowed from the WIKI (to test)

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<PropertyList>
<generic>
   <output>
      <line_separator>newline</line_separator>
      <var_separator>tab</var_separator>
 
      <chunk>
         <name>altitude above ground</name>
         <node>/position/altitude-agl-ft</node>
         <type>float</type>
         <format>%03.2f</format>
       </chunk>
 
      <chunk>
         <name>elevator position</name>
         <node>/surface-positions/elevator-pos-norm</node>
         <type>float</type>         
         <format>elevator=%03.2f</format>
       </chunk>

      <chunk>
         <name>altitude autopilot (wip)</name>
         <node>/autopilot/locks/altitude</node>
         <type>string</type>
         <format>%s</format>
       </chunk>

   </output>
</generic>
</PropertyList>

but keep getting the IO error

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Parse I/O channel request: generic,socket,out,10,127.0.0.1,5501,tcp,acars
  protocol = generic
Reading communication protocol from E:/newFGCVS/data/Protocol/acars.xml
  medium = socket
  direction = out
  hertz = 10
  hostname = 127.0.0.1
  port = 5501
  style = tcp
Error: connect() failed in make_client_socket()
SG_IO_OUT socket creation failed
Error opening channel communication layer.
I/O Channel config failed.

Any Ideas?

[MaverickAlex]

swapped the protocol over to something else and now can connect. S obviously some problem with the protocol i had.

[MaverickAlex]

i have succesfully started a connection to the internal server.

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Props server started on port 2222
Parse I/O channel request: generic,socket,out,1,127.0.0.1,2222,tcp,acars
  protocol = generic
Reading communication protocol from E:/newFGCVS/data/Protocol/acars.xml
  medium = socket
  direction = out
  hertz = 1
  hostname = 127.0.0.1
  port = 2222
  style = tcp

Do i need to send a data string to to it to get it to output to my client, or does it do it automagically?

[erik]

Once the connection is established FlightGear should start spewing o0ut data chunks, no need to trigger it in any way.

Erik