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standard.net.socket.SocketError

Name Version Deprecated
SocketError version 1.0 no

Prototype:
number SocketError(number socket)

Parameters:
socket      a valid and socket descriptor, as returned by SocketCreate

Description:
Gets an error code associated to the last failed operation on socket.

Example:
import standard.net.socket
import standard.lang.cli
import standard.C.io

define DEFAULT_ADDRESS	"www.yahoo.com"
define DEFAULT_PORT	80
define MAX_SIZE		0xFFFF

class Main {
	function Main() {
		// get the command line arguments
		var args=CLArg();
		var host=DEFAULT_ADDRESS;
		var port=DEFAULT_PORT;
		
		if (length args) {
			host=args[0];
			if (args[1])
				port=value args[1];
		}

		var s=SocketCreate();

		echo "Connecting ... ";
		if (SocketConnect(s, host, port)==-1) {
			echo "Couldn't Connect to $host on port $port: "+SocketError(s)+"\n";
			return 0;
		}

		echo "Connected !\n";

		SocketWrite(s, "GET /\r\n\r\n");

		// try to read exactly MAX_SIZE bytes (the server will disconnect us)
		SocketRead(s, var data, MAX_SIZE, false, true);

		WriteFile(data, host+".html");

		SocketClose(s);
	}
}

Returns:
Returns an error code, or -2 if SocketError failed.

Documented by Eduard Suica, generation time: Fri Jan 21 18:06:20 2011 GMT(c)2011 RadGs Software