socketOpen function

socketOpen socketId

socketOpen (host, port)

Creates a TCP/IP socket connected to the host and port. The host may be a host name or an IP address given as a string. Domain Name Services must be set up properly in order for names to be given.

Parameters:

host - String the host name or IP address of the remote computer.

port - a number for the TCP/IP port number.

Returns:

A socket identifier or false if the connection could not be named. This is passed to socketWrite and socketClose functions to identify the socket. If false is returned, the error will be saved and can be obtained by calling socketGetLastError().

Example

sock = socketOpen("172.21.46.96", 7474)
if sock == true then
status = socketWrite(sock, "Hello World")
if status == false then
trace("Socket Write Error: " & socketGetLastError(), YELLOW)
endif
socketClose(sock)
else
trace("Socket Open Error: " & socketGetLastError(), YELLOW)
endif

Related topics

Administering

TCP-IP-socket-functions

 

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