Winsock, connected??? Help!

[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?

[lerroux]

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

[ganeshmoorthy]

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

[ganeshmoorthy]

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

[gnaver]

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...

[lerroux]

try searching planetsourcecode.... hope you find your answer...

[Hack]

Give this API a try.

[SAGremlin]

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..

[Pino]

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

[bulletrick]

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?

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

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

[gnaver]

thanks bulletrick your method works perfect..

[bulletrick]

thanks bulletrick your method works perfect..

Your welcome.

[Pino]

Please do not ask for reputation points its not allowed
Pino

[bulletrick]

Please do not ask for reputation points its not allowed
Pino

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