# open network connections

Andreas Dieberger (andreas.dieberger@lcc.gatech.edu)
Thu, 2 Nov 1995 09:29:45 PST

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    >> What is the function to determine if a certain network connection is still
    >> active?
    >
    >In a !d verb, try any of theese:
    >typeof(connection_name(OBJ))!=ERR
    >typeof(idle_seconds(OBJ))!=ERR

    Hmm - here is probably a related problem which I never had the time to dig into:

    The MCP patch requires that you start the $httpd server object in order to
    connect to a WWW gateway. However I didnt find any way to check if that
    start is done already or not. Moreover in my MOO I sometimes have to start
    $httpd over after some time - I have the impression $httpd simply stops
    listening after some time. Is there any way to find out if it is still
    listening? Simply restarting it every hour just to make sure cannot be the
    right way...

    Andreas

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