Represents a socket. The fields are, respectively:

• File descriptor
• Socket family
• Socket type
• Protocol number
• Status flag

If you are calling the MkSocket constructor directly you should ensure you have called withSocketsDo.

Address families.

A constructor being present here does not mean it is supported by the operating system: see isSupportedFamily.

Does the AF_ constant corresponding to the given family exist on this system?

Socket Types.

The existence of a constructor does not necessarily imply that that socket type is supported on your system: see isSupportedSocketType.

Does the SOCK_ constant corresponding to the given SocketType exist on this system?

The existence of a constructor does not necessarily imply that that socket address type is supported on your system: see isSupportedSockAddr.

Is the socket address type supported on this system?

The status of the socket as determined by this library, not necessarily reflecting the state of the connection itself.

For example, the Closed status is applied when the close function is called.

Network byte order.

Host byte order.

This is the default protocol for a given service.

Use the Num instance (i.e. use a literal) to create a PortNumber value with the correct network-byte-ordering. You should not use the PortNum constructor. It will be removed in the next release.

Either a host name e.g., "haskell.org" or a numeric host address string consisting of a dotted decimal IPv4 address or an IPv6 address e.g., "192.168.0.1".

Flags that control the querying behaviour of getAddrInfo.

Indicate whether the given AddrInfoFlag will have any effect on this system.

Default hints for address lookup with getAddrInfo. The values of the addrAddress and addrCanonName fields are undefined, and are never inspected by getAddrInfo.

Resolve a host or service name to one or more addresses. The AddrInfo values that this function returns contain SockAddr values that you can pass directly to connect or bind.

This function is protocol independent. It can return both IPv4 and IPv6 address information.

The AddrInfo argument specifies the preferred query behaviour, socket options, or protocol. You can override these conveniently using Haskell's record update syntax on defaultHints, for example as follows:

  myHints = defaultHints { addrFlags = [AI_ADDRCONFIG, AI_CANONNAME] }

Values for addrFlags control query behaviour. The supported flags are as follows:

AI_PASSIVE

If no HostName value is provided, the network address in each SockAddr will be left as a "wild card", i.e. as either iNADDR_ANY or iN6ADDR_ANY. This is useful for server applications that will accept connections from any client.

AI_CANONNAME

The addrCanonName field of the first returned AddrInfo will contain the "canonical name" of the host.

AI_NUMERICHOST

The HostName argument must be a numeric address in string form, and network name lookups will not be attempted.

Note: Although the following flags are required by RFC 3493, they may not have an effect on all platforms, because the underlying network stack may not support them. To see whether a flag from the list below will have any effect, call addrInfoFlagImplemented.

AI_NUMERICSERV

The ServiceName argument must be a port number in string form, and service name lookups will not be attempted.

AI_ADDRCONFIG

The list of returned AddrInfo values will only contain IPv4 addresses if the local system has at least one IPv4 interface configured, and likewise for IPv6.

AI_V4MAPPED

If an IPv6 lookup is performed, and no IPv6 addresses are found, IPv6-mapped IPv4 addresses will be returned.

AI_ALL

If AI_ALL is specified, return all matching IPv6 and IPv4 addresses. Otherwise, this flag has no effect.

You must provide a Just value for at least one of the HostName or ServiceName arguments. HostName can be either a numeric network address (dotted quad for IPv4, colon-separated hex for IPv6) or a hostname. In the latter case, its addresses will be looked up unless AI_NUMERICHOST is specified as a hint. If you do not provide a HostName value and do not set AI_PASSIVE as a hint, network addresses in the result will contain the address of the loopback interface.

If the query fails, this function throws an IO exception instead of returning an empty list. Otherwise, it returns a non-empty list of AddrInfo values.

There are several reasons why a query might result in several values. For example, the queried-for host could be multihomed, or the service might be available via several protocols.

Note: the order of arguments is slightly different to that defined for getaddrinfo in RFC 2553. The AddrInfo parameter comes first to make partial application easier.

Example: let hints = defaultHints { addrFlags = [AI_ADDRCONFIG, AI_CANONNAME] } addrs <- getAddrInfo (Just hints) (Just "www.haskell.org") (Just "http") let addr = head addrs sock <- socket (addrFamily addr) (addrSocketType addr) (addrProtocol addr) connect sock (addrAddress addr)

Resolve an address to a host or service name. This function is protocol independent.

The list of NameInfoFlag values controls query behaviour. The supported flags are as follows:

NI_NOFQDN

If a host is local, return only the hostname part of the FQDN.

NI_NUMERICHOST

The name of the host is not looked up. Instead, a numeric representation of the host's address is returned. For an IPv4 address, this will be a dotted-quad string. For IPv6, it will be colon-separated hexadecimal.

NI_NUMERICSERV

The name of the service is not looked up. Instead, a numeric representation of the service is returned.

NI_NAMEREQD

If the hostname cannot be looked up, an IO error is thrown.

NI_DGRAM

Resolve a datagram-based service name. This is required only for the few protocols that have different port numbers for their datagram-based versions than for their stream-based versions.

Hostname and service name lookups can be expensive. You can specify which lookups to perform via the two Bool arguments. If one of these is False, the corresponding value in the returned tuple will be Nothing, and no lookup will be performed.

If a host or service's name cannot be looked up, then the numeric form of the address or service will be returned.

If the query fails, this function throws an IO exception.

Example: (hostName, _) <- getNameInfo [] True False myAddress

Create a new socket using the given address family, socket type and protocol number. The address family is usually AF_INET, AF_INET6, or AF_UNIX. The socket type is usually Stream or Datagram. The protocol number is usually defaultProtocol. If AF_INET6 is used, the IPv6Only socket option is set to 0 so that both IPv4 and IPv6 can be handled with one socket.

Build a pair of connected socket objects using the given address family, socket type, and protocol number. Address family, socket type, and protocol number are as for the socket function above. Availability: Unix.

Connect to a remote socket at address.

Bind the socket to an address. The socket must not already be bound. The Family passed to bind must be the same as that passed to socket. If the special port number aNY_PORT is passed then the system assigns the next available use port.

Listen for connections made to the socket. The second argument specifies the maximum number of queued connections and should be at least 1; the maximum value is system-dependent (usually 5).

Accept a connection. The socket must be bound to an address and listening for connections. The return value is a pair (conn, address) where conn is a new socket object usable to send and receive data on the connection, and address is the address bound to the socket on the other end of the connection.

Returns the processID, userID and groupID of the socket's peer.

Only available on platforms that support SO_PEERCRED or GETPEEREID(3) on domain sockets. GETPEEREID(3) returns userID and groupID. processID is always 0.

Turns a Socket into an Handle. By default, the new handle is unbuffered. Use hSetBuffering to change the buffering.

Note that since a Handle is automatically closed by a finalizer when it is no longer referenced, you should avoid doing any more operations on the Socket after calling socketToHandle. To close the Socket after socketToHandle, call hClose on the Handle.

Send data to the socket. The recipient can be specified explicitly, so the socket need not be in a connected state. Returns the number of bytes sent. Applications are responsible for ensuring that all data has been sent.

NOTE: blocking on Windows unless you compile with -threaded (see GHC ticket #1129)

Send data to the socket. The recipient can be specified explicitly, so the socket need not be in a connected state. Returns the number of bytes sent. Applications are responsible for ensuring that all data has been sent.

Receive data from the socket. The socket need not be in a connected state. Returns (bytes, nbytes, address) where bytes is a String of length nbytes representing the data received and address is a SockAddr representing the address of the sending socket.

NOTE: blocking on Windows unless you compile with -threaded (see GHC ticket #1129)

Receive data from the socket, writing it into buffer instead of creating a new string. The socket need not be in a connected state. Returns (nbytes, address) where nbytes is the number of bytes received and address is a SockAddr representing the address of the sending socket.

NOTE: blocking on Windows unless you compile with -threaded (see GHC ticket #1129)

Send data to the socket. The socket must be connected to a remote socket. Returns the number of bytes sent. Applications are responsible for ensuring that all data has been sent.

Receive data from the socket. The socket must be in a connected state. This function may return fewer bytes than specified. If the message is longer than the specified length, it may be discarded depending on the type of socket. This function may block until a message arrives.

Considering hardware and network realities, the maximum number of bytes to receive should be a small power of 2, e.g., 4096.

For TCP sockets, a zero length return value means the peer has closed its half side of the connection.

Send data to the socket. The socket must be connected to a remote socket. Returns the number of bytes sent. Applications are responsible for ensuring that all data has been sent.

Receive data from the socket. The socket must be in a connected state. This function may return fewer bytes than specified. If the message is longer than the specified length, it may be discarded depending on the type of socket. This function may block until a message arrives.

Considering hardware and network realities, the maximum number of bytes to receive should be a small power of 2, e.g., 4096.

For TCP sockets, a zero length return value means the peer has closed its half side of the connection.

Shut down one or both halves of the connection, depending on the second argument to the function. If the second argument is ShutdownReceive, further receives are disallowed. If it is ShutdownSend, further sends are disallowed. If it is ShutdownBoth, further sends and receives are disallowed.

Close the socket. All future operations on the socket object will fail. The remote end will receive no more data (after queued data is flushed).

Determines whether close has been used on the Socket. This does not indicate any status about the socket beyond this. If the socket has been closed remotely, this function can still return True.

Socket options for use with setSocketOption and getSocketOption.

The existence of a constructor does not imply that the relevant option is supported on your system: see isSupportedSocketOption

Does the SocketOption exist on this system?

Get a socket option that gives an Int value. There is currently no API to get e.g. the timeval socket options

Set a socket option that expects an Int value. There is currently no API to set e.g. the timeval socket options

The IPv4 wild card address.

The IPv6 wild card address.

This is the value of SOMAXCONN, typically 128. 128 is good enough for normal network servers but is too small for high performance servers.

With older versions of the network library on Windows operating systems, the networking subsystem must be initialised using withSocketsDo before any networking operations can be used. eg.

main = withSocketsDo $ do {...}

It is fine to nest calls to withSocketsDo, and to perform networking operations after withSocketsDo has returned.

In newer versions of the network library it is only necessary to call withSocketsDo if you are calling the MkSocket constructor directly. However, for compatibility with older versions on Windows, it is good practice to always call withSocketsDo (it's very cheap).

Deprecated alias for bind.

Deprecated alias for close.

Deprecated alias for isConnected.

Deprecated alias for isBound.

Deprecated alias for isListening.

Deprecated alias for isReadable.

Deprecated alias for isWritable.