Forums Feature Suggestions /socklisten auto-timeout

How about a flag to make a listening socket automatically timeout after a certain number of seconds? That would rock.

I see not need.

/socklisten blah 80
.timercloseblah 1 30 /sockclose blah

Timer's are simple enough.

Just like you can do
set %var 1
timervarunset 1 20 unset %var

Oh but /set|/inc|/hinc|/ban|and others have an unset flag.

A socket timeout isn't the same as just closing a socket after a period of time.

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oh a timer, no, really? I had no idea you could make timers.
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Timers... never!

It's far easier to imagine that the little magical monkey in your computer is going to ook-ook-eek to the required value before closing the socket isn't it? How else do you think this will be implemented, and why do you feel it should be an internal mIRC feature as opposed to a scripted, far more flexible, solution?

Well, internal timers are usually handier (that's why we have -u in various commands, as lori pointed out) but another, perhaps more important, difference is that /timers are quite often stopped by the user. I've found myself doing /timers off, to stop a timer gone haywire and flooding my Status, for example. Of course, internal timers can still be stopped in most cases (heck, one could even do a /sockclose *) but /timers off happens far more often, I think. This unpredictable stopping of /timers has always been bothering me in scripts (for example, I use the on active event to check for and restart timers).