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The /socklisten command allows mIRC to listen for specific connections on a specified host port.
Synopsis
/socklisten [-dpun] [bindip] <name> [port]
Switches
- d - Indicates that an IP address has been specified as the bind address.
- p - Enables UPnP support for the listening socket, if that is available.
- u - Enables dual stack socket to support both ipv4 and ipv6 for the listening socket, if that is available, you must bind to an ipv6 ip address
- n - Disable nagle algorithm for the socket, the accepted socket will have nagle disabled. You can disable nagle per accepted socket by using /sockaccept's -n switch
Parameters
- <name> - The name to give the new listening socket.
- [port] - The port number to listen on for this socket. If not specified, mIRC attempts to use a random port specified in the DCC port range options.
Example
Open a listening socket named mySocket and listen on port 31781:
/socklisten mySocket 31781
Compatibility
Added: mIRC v5.3
Added on: 13 Dec 1997
Note: Unless otherwise stated, this was the date of original functionality.
Further enhancements may have been made in later versions.
See Also
- List of commands
- List of identifiers
- $sock
- $sockname
- $sockerr
- $sockbr
- /sockaccept
- /sockclose
- /socklist
- /sockmark
- /sockopen
- /sockpause
- /sockread
- /sockrename
- /sockudp
- /sockwrite
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