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What is a socket?

Subject:What is a socket?
Posted by:"Richard Bibby" (richard.bib..@profdoc.se)
Date:Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:13:06

Hej,

I am writing a service application that uses a idHTTP component, and an
idHTTPServer.

Most of the time I am handling incoming messages via idHTTPServer however
sometimes my applications needs to send an SMS and I do this by simply
Posting to an URL using the idHTTP component.

However occasionally I get a socket error when posting the SMS message. I
assume that this is because the idHTTPServer component has the socket open.
But I wondered what the socket defined as. Is it down to the port level, or
application or machine level?  Could I have two sockets open if I used a
different port?

If not I guess its ok to gracefully handle the socket error, back off a bit,
and then retry?

/Richard

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