Explorer kills my chat server

[Jennifer Petkus <pe...@yorktown.virtualight.com>]

Hello, I'm new to this list and hope you can help. I've written a chat
server that uses Macromedia Flash as the front end client. You can see it in
action at http://www.in-a-flash.org/chat/chat.html. A mod_perl script is the
server and it works fine, but when a Windows Explorer user is logged in and
shutsdown without closing the socket, quitting IE first or giving another
app focus, it kills the chat server. It's easy to restart but annoying as
heck.

For the record, it doesn't seem to make a difference which version of Perl
or mod_perl distribution. Windows Netscape Navigator doesn't kill the
server. I'm using IO::Socket and IO::Select. If anyone has any suggestions,
I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,

Jennifer Petkus