In many cases, there will be a <CODE>
SocketError</CODE>
 in the low byte, but the high byte will be clear -- there was no problem with the low-level communication medium, but a protocol exception may have occurred.</P>
<P>
In general, only the low byte (the <CODE>
SocketError</CODE>
 value) is useful in determining how to handle the exception. The high byte might affect what error message is displayed to the user. For example, it probably doesn't matter to your program whether the high byte was SSDE_LINE_B