I am currently making a web based-cgi game. (in C++) But I have a snag, when i fire up winsock to send an email to the user, socket(*dont know parameters cause @ work*)=sd; fails with 10106 i think it was. Any idea why this would be? Stand alone applications work fine with identical code. I am testing this on xitami web server, for deployment on iis 5. Thanks for any help I know its way OT

According to winsock2.h, error 10106 is WSAEPROVIDERFAILEDINIT :

MSDN replies :

WSAPROVIDERFAILEDINIT
(OS dependent)
Unable to initialize a service provider.
Either a service provider''s DLL could not be loaded (LoadLibrary failed) or the provider''s WSPStartup/NSPStartup function failed.

The odd thing is, on the same pc, the same code in a stand alone application works perfectly fine.