socket_connect Initiates a connection on a socket &reftitle.description; boolsocket_connect resourcesocket stringaddress intport0 Initiate a connection to address using the socket resource socket, which must be a valid socket resource created with socket_create. &reftitle.parameters; socket address The address parameter is either an IPv4 address in dotted-quad notation (e.g. 127.0.0.1) if socket is AF_INET, a valid IPv6 address (e.g. ::1) if IPv6 support is enabled and socket is AF_INET6 or the pathname of a Unix domain socket, if the socket family is AF_UNIX. port The port parameter is only used and is mandatory when connecting to an AF_INET or an AF_INET6 socket, and designates the port on the remote host to which a connection should be made. &reftitle.returnvalues; &return.success; The error code can be retrieved with socket_last_error. This code may be passed to socket_strerror to get a textual explanation of the error. If the socket is non-blocking then this function returns &false; with an error Operation now in progress. &reftitle.seealso; socket_bind socket_listen socket_create socket_last_error socket_strerror