My socket in Eiffel will report that it is connected, but when it tries to write to the socket, it will fail and report Connection reset by peer I/O error

The syslog shows 1) ... accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:.. 2) connect_blocking: getsockopt A_REMOTE_IP:A_REMOTE_PORT: Connection refused (111) 3) Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket

I believe that my socket is connecting locally fine 127.0.0.1:.. in step 1, and then the remote connection via stunnel is failing in step 2, but I have tried to write to the socket in between steps 1 and 2.

Is this proper behavior? How can I know the status of the remote connection? Wait a while and then test? Is the socket state really just the state of the local stunnel connection?

Should stunnel report a different state (as seen by my socket) until it determines the remote socket state?