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 and that the file descriptor is in non-blocking mode. See setNonBlockIfNeeded.

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".

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.

>>> 1 :: PortNumber
1
>>> read "1" :: PortNumber
1

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).

Creates the server side socket which has been bound to the specified port.

maxListenQueue (typically 128) is specified to the listen queue. This is good enough for normal network servers but is too small for high performance servers.

To avoid the "Address already in use" problems, the ReuseAddr socket option is set on the listening socket.

If available, the IPv6Only socket option is set to 0 so that both IPv4 and IPv6 can be accepted with this socket.

If you don't like the behavior above, please use the lower level listen instead.

Accept a connection on a socket created by listenOn. Normal I/O operations (see System.IO) can be used on the Handle returned to communicate with the client. Notice that although you can pass any Socket to Network.accept, only sockets of either AF_UNIX, AF_INET, or AF_INET6 will work (this shouldn't be a problem, though). When using AF_UNIX, HostName will be set to the path of the socket and PortNumber to -1.

Close the socket. Sending data to or receiving data from closed socket may lead to undefined behaviour.

Calling connectTo creates a client side socket which is connected to the given host and port. The Protocol and socket type is derived from the given port identifier. If a port number is given then the result is always an internet family Stream socket.

Returns the PortID associated with a given socket.