haskell / haskell/HTTP

simpleHTTP raises exception on connection refused

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Description

When nothing listening on `localhost:81`, with following code:

```
(simpleHTTP (getRequest "http://localhost:81/")) >>= (\r -> case r of Left _ -> putStrLn "Error"; Right _ -> putStrLn "Alright!")
```

instead of printing `Error`, I get:

```
*** Exception: connect: does not exist (Connection refused)
```

To me, and as suggested by someone in `#haskell`, this seems like an unexpected behaviour. I'm expecting error condition to be passed in return value.

Thanks!

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