diff --git a/ppf.py b/ppf.py
index 13b2d5f..8597bfe 100755
--- a/ppf.py
+++ b/ppf.py
@@ -43,11 +43,25 @@ def fetch_contents(url):
 		'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8',
 		'Cache-Control: max-age=0',
 	]
-	proxies = [rocksock.RocksockProxyFromURL('socks4://%s' % random.choice( config.torhosts ))]
-	http = RsHttp(host,ssl=ssl,port=port, keep_alive=True, timeout=config.ppf.timeout, max_tries=config.ppf.http_retries, follow_redirects=True, auto_set_cookies=True, proxies=proxies, user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0')
-	if not http.connect():
-		_log("failed to connect to %s"%url, "ppf")
-		return ''
+	while True:
+		proxies = [rocksock.RocksockProxyFromURL('socks4://%s' % random.choice( config.torhosts ))]
+		http = RsHttp(host,ssl=ssl,port=port, keep_alive=True, timeout=config.ppf.timeout, max_tries=config.ppf.http_retries, follow_redirects=True, auto_set_cookies=True, proxies=proxies, user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0')
+		if not http.connect():
+			_log("failed to connect to %s"%url, "ppf")
+			e = http.get_last_rocksock_exception()
+			if not e:
+				return ''
+			et = e.get_errortype()
+			ee = e.get_error()
+			ef = e.get_failedproxy()
+			if et == rocksock.RS_ET_OWN and \
+			ee == rocksock.RS_E_TARGET_CONN_REFUSED \
+			and ef == 0:
+				_log("could not connect to proxy 0 - check your connection", "error")
+				time.sleep(5)
+				continue
+			return ''
+		break
 	hdr, res = http.get(uri, headers)
 	res = res.encode('utf-8') if isinstance(res, unicode) else res
 	for retry_message in retry_messages: