When I'm using a Client object, I need to be able to tell if the server I'm connected to has gone down, so that I can periodically try to reconnect to it. However, there is no Client method that directly does this. I tried using a write to possibly trigger SocketException, but it turns out I'm unable to catch the error, even just using a plain old Exception in the catch block. Does available() return some special code if the Server has died? Or does it just always return 0 if there is nothing to read? I guess I'll go check that right now.