Ethernet Shield Doesn't Close Socket After Client.Connect() Failure

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The server closes the connection. If your server is not closing the connection, you need to timeout the connection on the client end. Here is what I use on the client to timeout a broken connection or stalled server.

  // connectLoop controls the hardware fail timeout
  int connectLoop = 0;

  while(client.connected())
  {
    while(client.available())
    {
      inChar = client.read();
      Serial.write(inChar);
      // set connectLoop to zero if a packet arrives
      connectLoop = 0;
    }

    connectLoop++;

    // if more than 10000 milliseconds since the last packet
    if(connectLoop > 10000)
    {
      // then close the connection from this end.
      Serial.println();
      Serial.println(F("Timeout"));
      client.stop();
    }
    // this is a delay for the connectLoop timing
    delay(1);
  }

  Serial.println();

  Serial.println(F("disconnecting."));
  // close client end
  client.stop();

The full code I use is here.
http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/WebClient

edit: You didn't answer my main question. What kind of device is 192.168.0.102? LAMP server? Windows? Arduino?