get-socket-peer-address Function

Summary

Returns the remote address and port number of a given socket.

Package

comm

Signature

get-socket-peer-address socket => address, port

Arguments

socket⇩

A socket handle.

Values

address⇩	A integer, ipv6-address or nil.
port⇩	An integer or nil.

Description

The function get-socket-peer-address returns the remote address of a connected socket socket.

address is the remote host address of socket or nil if not connected.

port is the remote port number of socket or nil if not connected.

Notes

Connected sockets have two addresses, local and remote.

See also

get-socket-address
socket-stream-peer-address
25 TCP and UDP socket communication and SSL