Opening Sockets on localhost

[Dan Shafer]

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...???

Dan