Alex.....
I got it. IOW, opening a socket doesn't work unilaterally. The "server" has to have a listener on that port first. Right?
I'm going to figure out this server stuff one of these days.
Dan
On Mar 15, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Dan Shafer wrote:
If I open socket to "localhost" and look at the result, it's empty, which means the socket got created. If I subsequently use close socket "localhost", that works, too. If, before I close the socket I try to open it again, I get the expected error indicating the socket is already open. So far, so good.
However, if I append a port to the open socket command, nothing happens. open socket to "localhost:8080" followed immediately by "cloe socket "localhost:8080" returns "socket is not open."
OS X 10.3.8, Rev 2.5.1.
Is this broken or am I misunderstanding something or...???
Possibly neither.
open socket "localhost" is equivalent to open socket "localhost:80"
the default port is 80, which is generally used for HTTP connections. This should succeed if your machine is able (willing) to accept http connections, and otherwise it should fail. Sounds like it succeeds on your machine.
open socket "localhost:8080" should fail, unless you have some process on your machine accepting connections on port 8080 - fairly unlikely, so I'd expect it to fail.
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