Simple Socket Saga

[Phil Davis]

Len Morgan wrote:
> I'm trying to create a listening socket and something is not quite 
> right.  I've created a button:
>
> on mouseUp
> accept connections on port 502 with message "connected"
> end mouseUp
>
> on connect s
>   put "Connect to" && s after fld "test"
>   read from socket s for 1 line
>   put lne 1 of it after fld "test"
> end connect
>
> The problem is I'm never getting the "connect" message.  Have I missed 
> something?  I have firewall turned off so it's not getting blocked 
> (I'm pretty sure).
>
> len
If you have any doubt about port 502 being blocked, try testing it with 
a more common port number, like 80 or 8080. Just a thought -

Phil Davis