Socket

Description

Creates a TCP/IP connection, or establishes a TCP/IP server.

Properties

connected readonly	When true, the connection is active.
encoding readonly	Sets or retrieves the name of the encoding used to transmit data.
eof readonly	When true, the receive buffer is empty.
error readonly	A message describing the most recent error. Setting this value clears any error message.
host readonly	The name of the remote computer when a connection is established.
timeout readonly	The timeout in seconds to be applied to read or write operations.

Constructors

Socket readonly

Creates a new Socket object.

Methods

close readonly	Terminates the open connection.
listen readonly	Instructs the object to start listening for an incoming connection.
open readonly	Opens the connection for subsequent read/write operations.
poll readonly	Checks a listening object for a new incoming connection.
read readonly	Reads up to the specified number of characters from the connection. CR characters are ignored unless the encoding is set to “BINARY”.
readln readonly	Reads one line of text up to the next line feed.
write readonly	Concatenates all arguments into a single string and writes that string to the connection.
writeln readonly	Concatenates all arguments into a single string, appends a LF character, and writes that string to the connection.