Socket communication

[Richard Gaskin]

Ralph DiMola wrote:

 > When one enables socket communication on the server side using
 > the form "accept [datagram] connections on port portNumber with
 > message callbackMessage", how do you stop accepting new connections?
 > The LC lesson show closing all open sockets but not how to prevent
 > new connections.

After running "accept", check the openSockets.  You should see one which 
has no IP address, and is just the port number you're listening on, e.g.:

   accept connections on port 4444 with message "foo"
   put the openSockets

..should yield:

4444

If you then close that you should be unable to receive further connections:

    close socket 4444

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