Socket connections

[Torsten]

Hi,

only one simple question.
Is it possible to handle socket connections with
javascript?

TIA
Torsten

 

[Martin Honnen]

Is it possible to handle socket connections with
javascript?

Well if you embed a JavaScript engine into an application or framework
exposing a socket API to script then JavaScript can handle socket
connections.
If you are asking about script embedded into HTML pages served to a
browser then those browsers usually don't expose such low-level APIs to
JavaScript though with XMLHttpRequest (in Mozilla, Netscape, Firefox,
Safari 1.2, Opera 7.60) respectively Microsoft.XMLHTTP in MSIE/Win you
are able to script HTTP requests.

XUL/XPCOM in Mozilla even exposes scoket interfaces
http://xulplanet.com/references/xpcomref/group_Network.html#Sockets
but I have never used them so I don't know whether they are usable from
script (in XUL applications or XUL pages served from chrome

 

[Hal Rosser]

not with client-side js
yes with server-side (ASP)