Forums Scripts & Popups sockopen/close

Hi

I use a number of scripts that retrieve website news/data for a channel. Sometimes either due to internet lag/timeouts etc a sock is still open by the time the script is next run:
e.g.
* /sockopen: 'djgen' socket in use (line 199, Newsroom.txt)

so I either have to /sockclose manually or wait for the connection to come right - is there a way to automatically close the socket if the above /sockopen occurs?

Thanks in advance...

I don't think you can detect that event, but you can see if the socket is open before trying to open it, e.g:

thanks Collective - will give that a try...

Btw, there's no need for the $sock() check - he could merely do:

• sockclose name
  sockopen name addy port

A nice thing about /sockclose is that it already does an internal check and doesn't display an error if you're trying to close a nonexistent socket. Something similar to /.remove filename. I would like to see /hfree and /comclose working in the same way...