Test if the socket is connected — If the CONNECTED( ) socket method is TRUE, the socket is connected.

Control event sensitivity — At any time, you can make the socket stop receiving READ-RESPONSE events by setting its SENSITIVE attribute to FALSE. Also at any time, you can return it to receiving READ-RESPONSE events by setting SENSITIVE to TRUE.

Set socket options — ABL supports the following options:

TCP-NODELAY

SO-LINGER

SO-KEEPALIVE

SO-REUSEADDR

SO-SNDBUF

SO-RCVBUF

SO-RCVTIMEO

Obtain host and port values — You can obtain the remote host IP address and port number involved in the connection from the values of the REMOTE-HOST and REMOTE-PORT socket attributes. Similarly, you can obtain the local host and port from the LOCAL-HOST and LOCAL-PORT socket attributes.

Disconnect a socket — You can close the socket and remove the association between the socket object and its remote port by invoking the DISCONNECT( ) socket method. ABL automatically closes the local socket when ABL detects that the corresponding remote socket in a connection is closed.

Delete the socket object — You can delete a socket object using the DELETE OBJECT statement. However, you must disconnect the socket before you can delete it.