Winsock, connected??? Help!

I was wondering if you could help me on checking if the server is started or not.

so that I can make a offline/online function..

I have tried this:
Winsock1.Connect "192.168.46.12", "8866"
but don’t know what to do now, I don’t know if the connection is made or not.

How can I check that?

i dont remember how that works, although i have made that a while ago, anyways you can always search theses forums, there are always good answers here

check for the other winsock control's ConnectionRequest event, if that is triggered accept it from that end. then your connection is on.

yes, you can search for winsock in this forum. i remember somebody posted about this yesterday.

i have search, this forum, but cant seem to find anything about this.

i just need it to open a connection to a winsock server, check if it is online, if it is online then msgbox "Server is online!".

Something like that...

try searching planetsourcecode.... hope you find your answer...http://www.smileypad.com/v10/Cache/Feelings/Ask.gif

Give this API a try. :)

Use the UDPProtocol.. instead of TCP.. and send a small block of data to the server on any port..
Then all you need is a DataArrival sub on the Winsock.. If the Connection is accepted.. the Server will send a type of "What is this"reply.. or if the server is there but regects the connection.. you get a connection reset by Peer error that is trapable.. and usable to say well server is online...

hope this helps..

Gremmy..

What is the server? Is it a program you have wrote or a game server etc?

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Originally Posted by gnaver

I was wondering if you could help me on checking if the server is started or not.

so that I can make a offline/online function..

I have tried this:
Winsock1.Connect "192.168.46.12", "8866"
but don’t know what to do now, I don’t know if the connection is made or not.

How can I check that?

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Always use TCP. It's more reliable.

Why not try using the Winsock_Connect() sub-procedure? It will execute if the connection is succesful.

If the server is down, the Winsock_Error( ) sub-procedure will execute. Try to find out what is error number when there is no server then use

VB Code:

If number = serverDownErrorNum then
' write what should be done if the server is down
end if

thanks bulletrick your method works perfect.. ;)

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Originally Posted by gnaver

thanks bulletrick your method works perfect.. ;)

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Your welcome.

Please do not ask for reputation points its not allowed :)
Pino

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Originally Posted by Pino

Please do not ask for reputation points its not allowed :)
Pino

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Hehe. I was right. Actually, it wasn't my idea. :D Sorry. :afrog: